Book · by 刘慈欣
How many pages is The Dark Forest?
The Dark Forest by 刘慈欣 has a median of 522 pages across 5 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 513 to 550 pages.
How long will The Dark Forest take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Pages by format
Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.
| Format | Median pages | Editions | Reading time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 531 | 2 | 9 h 22 min |
| Paperback | 536 | 2 | 9 h 27 min |
Editions counted
The 5 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 31 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Head of Zeus | Hardcover | 550 | OL62443651M |
| 2016 | Head of Zeus | Paperback | 550 | OL27897732M |
| 2016 | Tor Trade | paperback | 522 | OL28109223M |
| 2015 | Tor Books | – | 513 | OL27251012M |
| 2015 | Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book | hardcover | 512 | OL27188116M |
Questions
- How many pages is The Dark Forest?
- About 522 pages: that is the median of 5 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 512 to 550 pages.
- How long does it take to read The Dark Forest?
- About 9 h 12 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 19 days.
- How many words is The Dark Forest?
- Roughly 144,000 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).