How long does it take to read Alas Babylon?
Pat Frank
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank takes about 5 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1959. 312 pages, about 85,800 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A story of a group of people who rely on their own courage and ingenuity to survive in a town which escaped nuclear bombing.
Subjects: Survival, Survival skills, Fiction, Nuclear warfare, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Fiction, science fiction, general
