How long does it take to read Xenocide?
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card takes about 10 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Ender's Saga
Previous: Speaker for the Dead Next: Children of the Mind
About 10 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 569 pages, about 156,475 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 38 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. With the Fleet on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable.
Subjects: Space warfare, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Lusitania (imaginary place), fiction
