How long does it take to read The Road to Mars?
The Road to Mars by Eric Idle takes about 5 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 309 pages, about 84,975 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 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On a tour of planets in the 24th century, two comedians are caught in a terrorist plot to sabotage a spaceship. They are rescued by their robot, the third member of their act.
Subjects: Fiction, Androids, Comedians, Twenty-second century, Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, science fiction, general
