# Plague Ship

Plague Ship by Andre Norton has 60,553 words.

## At a glance

Novel by Andre Norton.

- **Author:** [Andre Norton](https://musael.com/books/authors/andre-norton.md) (1912–2005)
- **First published:** 1956
- **Original language:** English
- **Genre:** science fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 60,553
- **Reading time:** 4 h 2 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 6 h 31 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 3 min | 11 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 2 min | 9 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 22 min | 7 days |

## Read or listen

Plague Ship is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/andre-norton/plague-ship
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16921
- LibriVox audiobook (7 h 5 min): https://librivox.org/plague-ship-by-andre-norton/

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 60,043
- Chapters: 18
- Dialogue: 19% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 16 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/andre-norton/plague-ship (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16921 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7200565
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_Ship
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL473283W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16921

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/plague-ship