How long does it take to read Visitors?
Visitors by Orson Scott Card takes about 11 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of The Pathfinder trilogy
Previous: Ruins
About 11 hours 9 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2014. 608 pages, about 167,200 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Timeshapers Rigg, Umbo, and Param must stop the Visitors from ordering the destruction of the planet Garden. Can they find a way to save their home world -- without destroying all human life on Earth? Everything they've tried so far has failed -- they can't even figure out why the humans from Earth would want to wipe out this eleven-thousand-year-old colony world. So to find the answer, Rigg must visit every wallfold on Garden to discover what the Visitors fear so much, while his duplicate, Noxon, takes a time-twisting route back to Earth in hopes of changing the future from the enemy's side. Neither mission can succeed without the help of allies who have proven themselves to be untrustworthy again and again. Meanwhile, Umbo struggles to save the lives of the people he loves without upsetting the whole course of history, while Param and her counselors try to save their homeland from the cruelest of tyrants -- Param's mother. Yet looming over their actions is this question: Will all of their efforts come down to a choice between human life on Earth or human life on Garden? - Jacket flap.
Subjects: Science fiction, Space colonies, Psychic ability, Time travel, Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic
