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How long does it take to read The Sagan Diary?

John Scalzi

The Sagan Diary by John Scalzi takes about 1 hour 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 1 hour 50 minutes

An evening's read

First published 2007. 100 pages, about 27,500 words.

4 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 3 hours 3 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 1 hour 50 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 9 minutes

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Fans of John Scalzi's "Old Man" universe, prepare yourselves: there's a long new story in that universe, told from the point of view of one of the series' most intriguing characters. Subterranean Press is proud to publish The Sagan Diary, a long novelette that for the first time looks at the worlds of the Hugo-nominated Old Man's War and its sequel The Ghost Brigades from the point of view of Lieutenant Jane Sagan, who in a series of diary entries gives her views on some of the events included in the series... and sheds new light into some previously unexplored corners. If you thought you knew Jane Sagan before, prepare to be surprised.

Subjects: Space warfare, Fiction

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