Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.1
Points
33.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
195006
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
480
Points per Page
0.06875
Description
In the mid-twenty-first century, the fleet of ships which transports passengers and cargo to all corners of the solar system is threatened by the creation of the Farnsworth fusion drive, and only one ship, "The River of Stars," is able to continue.