How long does it take to read The Three-Body Problem?
Cixin Liu, Vincent Schmitt, Gwennaël Gaffric, Marc Simonetti
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Vincent Schmitt, Gwennaël Gaffric, Marc Simonetti takes about 7 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Remembrance of Earth's Past
Next: The Dark Forest
About 7 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 417 pages, about 114,675 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 44 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Cixin Liu's trilogy-opening novel about first contact with aliens and the clandestine struggle with them over Earth's future, and its scientific progress in particular. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space in an attempt to make contact with aliens—and they succeed. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Now, on Earth, different factions start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.
Subjects: Hugo Award Winner, Human-alien encounters, Imaginary wars and battles, Fiction, Chinese fiction, FICTION / Science Fiction / General
