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Author · born 4 April 1948 · died 2026

Dan Simmons books: page counts

4 books by Dan Simmons with enough editions on Open Library to give a reliable page count.

Books
4
with page data
Longest
944
The Terror
Shortest
496
Hyperion

Pages per book

Median page count, in order of first publication.

Hyperion (1989)496The Fall of Hyperion (1990)517Carrion Comfort (2000)842The Terror (2007)944
Hyperion (1989)496The Fall of Hyperion…517Carrion Comfort (200…842The Terror (2007)944
Open Library edition records.

Every book

BookFirst publishedMedian pagesRangeReading time
Hyperion1989496481–5128 h 45 min
The Fall of Hyperion1990517468–5609 h 07 min
Carrion Comfort2000842636–99214 h 51 min
The Terror2007944784–96016 h 38 min

Reading all 4 takes about 49 h 20 min at average speed (2,799 pages).

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).