# Terminal Compromise

Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau has 214,532 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Winn Schwartau](https://musael.com/books/authors/winn-schwartau.md) (1952–)
- **Genre:** thriller
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 214,532
- **Reading time:** 14 h 18 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 23 h 4 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 17 h 53 min | 36 days |
| 250 wpm | 14 h 18 min | 29 days |
| 300 wpm | 11 h 55 min | 24 days |

## Read or listen

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

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79

## Counted from the text

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

- Words in the text: 214,532
- Chapters: 29
- Dialogue: 37% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 10 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2269387W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79

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

Source: https://musael.com/books/terminal-compromise