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How many pages is Out of the Silent Planet?

Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis has a median of 174 pages across 34 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 160 to 185 pages.

Median pages
174
34 editions counted
Range
95–275
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
3.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
48k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
3 h 04 min
At 30 min a day
7 days
At 1 hour a day
4 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

100200300194019601980200020201938: 264 pages1943: 263 pages1944: 174 pages1945: 174 pages1946: 182 pages1946: 174 pages1949: 159 pages1952: 190 pages1955: 174 pages1962: 194 pages1963: 174 pages1964: 174 pages1964: 182 pages1965: 160 pages1965: 160 pages1966: 194 pages1966: 196 pages1967: 174 pages1967: 174 pages1971: 174 pages1973: 124 pages1980: 173 pages1981: 275 pages1983: 186 pages1984: 173 pages1987: 160 pages1996: 160 pages1996: 158 pages1998: 245 pages1999: 160 pages2000: 176 pages2003: 160 pages2003: 158 pages2021: 95 pagesmedian 174
100200300195020001938: 264 pages1943: 263 pages1944: 174 pages1945: 174 pages1946: 182 pages1946: 174 pages1949: 159 pages1952: 190 pages1955: 174 pages1962: 194 pages1963: 174 pages1964: 174 pages1964: 182 pages1965: 160 pages1965: 160 pages1966: 194 pages1966: 196 pages1967: 174 pages1967: 174 pages1971: 174 pages1973: 124 pages1980: 173 pages1981: 275 pages1983: 186 pages1984: 173 pages1987: 160 pages1996: 160 pages1996: 158 pages1998: 245 pages1999: 160 pages2000: 176 pages2003: 160 pages2003: 158 pages2021: 95 pagesmedian 174
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 34 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 65 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Independently Published–95OL34241555M
2003ScribnerPaperback160OL7927772M
2003Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco MediaTurtleback158OL10943593M
2000Voyager/Harper Collins–176OL26791760M
1999Tandem LibraryLibrary binding160OL8188769M
1998MacMillan Publishing Company.Hardcover245OL8097128M
1996Scribner Paperback Fiction–160OL973494M
1996Scribner Classics–158OL991688M

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Questions

How many pages is Out of the Silent Planet?
About 174 pages: that is the median of 34 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 95 to 275 pages.
How long does it take to read Out of the Silent Planet?
About 3 h 04 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 7 days.
How many words is Out of the Silent Planet?
Roughly 48,000 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).