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Book · by Arthur C. Clarke · first published 1953

How many pages is Rendezvous with Rama?

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke has a median of 275 pages across 14 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 253 to 285 pages.

Median pages
275
14 editions counted
Range
214–441
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.8h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
76k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
4 h 51 min
At 30 min a day
10 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

200300400198019902000201020201973: 276 pages1973: 214 pages1973: 256 pages1973: 303 pages1973: 214 pages1974: 252 pages1974: 276 pages1975: 276 pages1980: 441 pages1988: 256 pages1990: 243 pages1990: 288 pages1994: 274 pages2020: 304 pagesmedian 275
2003004001980200020201973: 276 pages1973: 214 pages1973: 256 pages1973: 303 pages1973: 214 pages1974: 252 pages1974: 276 pages1975: 276 pages1980: 441 pages1988: 256 pages1990: 243 pages1990: 288 pages1994: 274 pages2020: 304 pagesmedian 275
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 14 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 60 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company–304OL29848354M
1994Lightyear PressHardcover274OL8276920M
1990Bantam Books–243OL22744920M
1990SpectraMass Market Paperback288OL7824861M
1988VGSF–256OL15069147M
1980G. K. Hall–441OL4103082M
1975Ballantine–276OL24218248M
1974Pan Books–252OL4951189M

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Questions

How many pages is Rendezvous with Rama?
About 275 pages: that is the median of 14 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 214 to 441 pages.
How long does it take to read Rendezvous with Rama?
About 4 h 51 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
How many words is Rendezvous with Rama?
Roughly 76,000 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)).