How long does it take to read The Shattered Chain?
The Shattered Chain by Marion Zimmer Bradley takes about 5 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 7 of Darkover series
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About 5 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1976. 287 pages, about 78,925 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 17 minutes |
The page count is the median across 22 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
While only women can command the power of the matrix and the secret sciences which keep Darkover from Terran hands, in most respects they are still chattels. But the Free Amazons are considered equal to men, and it is they who provide the key to the Terran-Darkover dilemma.
Subjects: Darkover (Imaginary place), Fiction, Life on other planets, Science Fiction, Darkover (imaginary place), fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general