How long does it take to read The Medusa Chronicles?
Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds
The Medusa Chronicles by Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds takes about 7 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 416 pages, about 114,400 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Inspired by Sir Arthur C. Clarke's award-winning novella A Meeting With Medusa, this is a novel of the unfolding rivalry between Mankind and Machines, spanning centuries and the spaces of the solar system and leading to a future neither could have envisaged.
Subjects: Fiction, Science Fiction, artificial intelligence, Fiction, science fiction, general, Astronauts