How long does it take to read The Precipice?
The Precipice by Ben Bova takes about 6 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 6 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 349 pages, about 95,975 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Space colonies, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, space opera
