It takes the average reader 3 hours and 15 minutes to read Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Fifty men and women set out in the twenty-third century from Earth aboard an interstellar craft to travel to a planet some thirty light-years away. The ship will approach the speed of light and so (as Einstein predicted) subjective time on board will slow and so the journey of several decades will be of much shorter duration for the crew. But the ship's deceleration system is irreparably damaged when it hits a cloud of interstellar dust and acceleration continues toward light speed, tau zero. Soon the ship is speeding through galaxies and eons are passing on board the ship in the blink of an...
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson is 189 pages long, and a total of 48,951 words.
This makes it 64% the length of the average book. It also has 60% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 27 minutes to read Tau Zero aloud.
Tau Zero is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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