How long does it take to read Use of Weapons?
Use of Weapons by Iain Banks takes about 7 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Culture series
Previous: The Player of Games Next: The State of the Art
About 7 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 400 pages, about 110,000 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people. It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. It believed the man to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine could see the horrors in his past. Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, USE OF WEAPONS is a masterpiece of science fiction.
Subjects: Long Now Manual for Civilization, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space warfare
