It takes the average reader 10 hours and 3 minutes to read Voyage to Alpha Centauri by Michael D. O'Brien
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He...
Voyage to Alpha Centauri by Michael D. O'Brien is 587 pages long, and a total of 150,859 words.
This makes it 198% the length of the average book. It also has 184% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 44 minutes to read Voyage to Alpha Centauri aloud.
Voyage to Alpha Centauri is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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