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How many pages is Red Mars?

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson has a median of 556 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 506 to 651 pages.

Median pages
556
6 editions counted
Range
501–672
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
9.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
153k
at 275 words per page
Book 1 of Mars trilogy
Series in order

How long will Red Mars take you?

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Reading time
9 h 48 min
At 30 min a day
20 days
At 1 hour a day
10 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

50060019941996199820001993: 501 pages1993: 519 pages1993: 592 pages1993: 501 pages1996: 671 pages2001: 672 pagesmedian 555
500600199520001993: 501 pages1993: 519 pages1993: 592 pages1993: 501 pages1996: 671 pages2001: 672 pagesmedian 555
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 37 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2001Trafalgar Square–672OL7261458M
1996HarperCollinsPaperback671OL25612656M
1993Grafton–501OL17342193M
1993Bantam Books–519OL1718806M
1993SpectraMass Market Paperback592OL7829012M
1993HarperCollins–501OL21441703M

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Questions

How many pages is Red Mars?
About 556 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 501 to 672 pages.
How long does it take to read Red Mars?
About 9 h 48 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 20 days.
How many words is Red Mars?
Roughly 153,000 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).