How long does it take to read True Names?
And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
Vernor Vinge, James Frenkel
True Names by Vernor Vinge, James Frenkel takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1984. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"A marvellous mixture of hard-science SF and sword-and-sorcery imagery.... You wish the author were present so you could applaud." - Analog
Subjects: Science fiction, Cyberspace, fantasy, swords and sorcery, American Fantasy fiction, American Science fiction
