How long does it take to read The Shadow Matrix?
The Shadow Matrix by Marion Zimmer Bradley takes about 10 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 19 of Darkover series
Previous: Exile's Song Next: Traitor's Sun
About 10 hours 16 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 560 pages, about 154,000 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 7 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After spending her youth in the Terran Empire, Margaret Alton returns to Darkover, the planet of her birth. There she discovers she has the Alton Gift--forced rapport and compulsion--one of the strongest and most dangerous of the inherited "Laran" gifts of the telepathic Comyn--the ruling families of Darkover. And even as she struggles to control her newfound powers, Margaret finds herself falling in love with the Regent to the royal Elhalyn Domain, a man she has been forbidden to marry, for their alliance would irrevocably alter the power balance of their planet!
Subjects: Fiction, Darkover (Imaginary place), Life on other planets, Science Fiction, Darkover (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
