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How long does it take to read The Steel Remains?

Richard K. Morgan

The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 1 of A Land Fit for Heroes

Next: The Cold Commands

About 6 hours 27 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2008. 352 pages, about 96,800 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 45 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 27 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 2 minutes

The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A dark lord will rise. Such is the prophecy that dogs Ringil Eskiath--Gil, for short--a washed-up mercenary and onetime war hero whose cynicism is surpassed only by the speed of his sword. Gil is estranged from his aristocratic family, but when his mother enlists his help in freeing a cousin sold into slavery, Gil sets out to track her down. But it soon becomes apparent that more is at stake than the fate of one young woman. Grim sorceries are awakening in the land. Some speak in whispers of the return of the Aldrain, a race of widely feared, cruel yet beautiful demons. Now Gil and two old comrades are all that stand in the way of a prophecy whose fulfillment will drown an entire world in blood. But with heroes like these, the cure is likely to be worse than the disease. From the Hardcover edition.

Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy fiction, Adventure stories, Science fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general

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