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Book · by William Gibson · first published 1993

How many pages is Virtual Light?

Virtual Light by William Gibson has a median of 303 pages across 6 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 298 to 320 pages.

Median pages
303
6 editions counted
Range
295–352
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
83k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
5 h 20 min
At 30 min a day
11 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.

3003203403601991199219931994199519961993: 295 pages1993: 325 pages1994: 296 pages1994: 302 pages1994: 304 pages1994: 352 pagesmedian 303
3003203403601992199419961993: 295 pages1993: 325 pages1994: 296 pages1994: 302 pages1994: 304 pages1994: 352 pagesmedian 303
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 6 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 26 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
1994Penguin–296OL22068063M
1994Samlerens Bogkub–302OL16723200M
1994Viking–304OL15102307M
1994Bantam Books–352OL15570553M
1993Viking–295OL17179620M
1993Bantam Books–325OL1399468M

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Questions

How many pages is Virtual Light?
About 303 pages: that is the median of 6 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 295 to 352 pages.
How long does it take to read Virtual Light?
About 5 h 20 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
How many words is Virtual Light?
Roughly 83,000 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).