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How many pages is Green Mars?

Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson has a median of 600 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 572 to 636 pages.

Median pages
600
6 editions counted
Range
535–781
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
11h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
165k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Green Mars take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
10 h 35 min
At 30 min a day
22 days
At 1 hour a day
11 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

50060070080019921994199619981993: 576 pages1994: 535 pages1994: 571 pages1995: 640 pages1995: 624 pages1996: 781 pagesmedian 600
5006007008001992199519971993: 576 pages1994: 535 pages1994: 571 pages1995: 640 pages1995: 624 pages1996: 781 pagesmedian 600
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 30 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
1996HarperCollinsPaperback781OL25612664M
1995SpectraMass Market Paperback640OL7829720M
1995Bantam Books–624OL22204169M
1994Bantam Books–535OL1428297M
1994HarperCollins–571OL17167051M
1993HarperCollins–576OL22444579M

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Questions

How many pages is Green Mars?
About 600 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 535 to 781 pages.
How long does it take to read Green Mars?
About 10 h 35 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 22 days.
How many words is Green Mars?
Roughly 165,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

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)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).