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How long does it take to read The Silver Metal Lover?

Tanith Lee

The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 24 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1981. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.

9 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 20 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 24 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 45 minutes

The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Jane feels adrift in the upper class of her dystopian society until she meets a robot built for pleasure she suspects is more than the sum of his parts. Can a girl truly love a machine? And can the machine love her back?

Subjects: English Science fiction, Robots, Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, general, American Science fiction

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