How long does it take to read The Man Who Sold the Moon?
The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein takes about 4 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Future History
Previous: The Long Watch Next: Revolt in 2100
About 4 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1950. 267 pages, about 73,425 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1949, Heinlein wrote this story about an entrepreneur who foresaw that future of manned space flight could not be left to governments. His protagonist, D.D. Harriman, risked his reputation, his fortune and his very life to make his dream a reality. The prescience of Heinlein's tale is embodied in a modern-day entrepreneur, who looks beyond the moon to Mars. The future of humans in space cannot be trusted to governments, whose inefficiencies would make it impossible. Though almost seventy years old, this story is more pertinent today than ever.
Subjects: American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Français (langue), Lectures et morceaux choisis, Science-fiction, Roman
