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Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany

We Who Are About To... by Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany takes about 3 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 7 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1977. 170 pages, about 46,750 words.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 12 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 7 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 57 minutes

The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto a barren, uncharted planet. With no technical skills and scant supplies, the survivors face a bleak end in an alien world. One brave woman holds the daring answer, but it is the most desperate one possible."--Jacket.

Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, American Science fiction, Survival, Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, Science fiction

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