It takes the average reader 9 hours and 19 minutes to read Ares Express by Ian McDonald
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Taking place in the kaleidoscopic future of Ian McDonald's DESOLATION ROAD, ARES EXPRESS is set on a terraformed Mars where fusion-powered locomotives run along the network of rails that is the planet's circulatory system and artificial intelligences reconfigure reality billions of times each second. One young woman, Sweetness Octave Glorious-Honeybun Asiim 12th, becomes the person upon whom the future - or futures - of Mars depends. Big, picaresque, funny; taking the Mars of Ray Bradbury and the more recent, terraformed Marses of authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Greg Bear, ARES...
Ares Express by Ian McDonald is 553 pages long, and a total of 139,909 words.
This makes it 187% the length of the average book. It also has 171% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 44 minutes to read Ares Express aloud.
Ares Express is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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