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How many pages is The Player of Games?

The Player of Games by Iain Banks has a median of 314 pages across 8 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 309 to 344 pages.

Median pages
314
8 editions counted
Range
293–502
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.5h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
86k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Player of Games 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
5 h 33 min
At 30 min a day
12 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

30040050019901995200020051988: 309 pages1989: 309 pages1989: 309 pages1989: 320 pages1997: 293 pages2005: 502 pages2008: 416 pages2008: 320 pagesmedian 314
300400500199020001988: 309 pages1989: 309 pages1989: 309 pages1989: 320 pages1997: 293 pages2005: 502 pages2008: 416 pages2008: 320 pagesmedian 314
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 8 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 23 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2008OrbitPaperback416OL10426057M
2008Little, Brown Book Group Limited–320OL33403391M
2005W.F. Howes–502OL16389384M
1997HarperPrism–293OL996368M
1989St. Martin's Press–309OL2052117M
1989Futura–309OL15125961M
1989OrbitPaperback320OL8998737M
1988Macmillan–309OL20763015M

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Questions

How many pages is The Player of Games?
About 314 pages: that is the median of 8 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 293 to 502 pages.
How long does it take to read The Player of Games?
About 5 h 33 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 12 days.
How many words is The Player of Games?
Roughly 86,000 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).