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How long does it take to read The Neutronium Alchemist?

Part 2: Conflict

Peter F. Hamilton

The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton takes about 17 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of The Night's Dawn Trilogy

Previous: The Reality Dysfunction Next: A Second Chance at Eden

About 17 hours 9 minutes

A long haul

First published 1997. 935 pages, about 257,125 words.

35 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 28 hours 34 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 17 hours 9 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 10 hours 43 minutes

The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

From the back cover: NOT EVERY FALLEN ANGEL COMES FROM HEAVEN... The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world. On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces unleashed upon the universe. Governments teeter on the bring of anarchy, the Confederation Navy is dangerously over-stretched, and a dark messiah prepares to invoke his own version of the final Night. In such desperate times, the last thing the galaxy needs is a new and terrifyingly powerful weapon. Yet Dr Alkad Mzu is determined to retrieve the Alchemist -- so she can complete her thirty year-old vendetta to slay a star. Which means Joshua Calvert has to find Dr Mzu and bring her back before the Alchemist can be reactivated. But he's not alone in the chase, and there are people on both sides who have their own ideas about how to use the ultimate doomsday device.

Subjects: English Science fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, science fiction, general, Good and evil, Spirit possession, Fiction

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