How long does it take to read The Worthing Chronicle?
The Worthing Chronicle by Orson Scott Card takes about 4 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of The Worthing tetralogy
Previous: The Tinker Next: The Worthing Saga
About 4 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1983. 272 pages, about 74,800 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This Book is currently out of print. It has been replaced by The Worthing Saga Jason Worthing was a telepath, and the best of the ark captains sent to seed humankind anew on a hundred new worlds. He vowed that his new world would be different from the stagnant one he had fled. He established his colonists and his descendants; and when he was sure that they would survive, he sealed himself in the last somec chamber in all the galaxy, triggered to awaken him when his world had built a new civilization. He slept for fifteeen thousand years, And when he awoke, it was to a future he had never dreamed of...
Subjects: Science fiction, Fiction, general
