How long does it take to read The Peace War?
The Peace War by Vernor Vinge takes about 5 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Realtime/Bobble
Next: Marooned in Realtime
About 5 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1984. 311 pages, about 85,525 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
First in a quintessential hard-science fiction adventure, Hugo Award-winning author Vernor Vinge's The Peace War follows a scientist determined to put an end to the militarization of his greatest invention--and of the government behind it. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority. With the help of an underground network of determined, independent scientists and a teenager who may be the apprentice genius he's needed for so long, he will shake the world.
Subjects: Fiction, Inventors, Political aspects of Technology, Power (Social sciences), Technology, Long Now Manual for Civilization
