How long does it take to read Axiomatic?
Axiomatic by Greg Egan takes about 6 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 376 pages, about 103,400 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
AXIOMATIC is a collection of eighteen short stories including; THE HUNDRED LIGHT YEAR DIARY - Scientists can bounce messages from the future back to the present, but there's no guarantee they'll tell the truth... LEARNING TO BE ME - Crystalline minds may take the place of human brains, but where does the self really lie? CLOSER - Lovers exchange bodies and minds, but their experiments go just that little bit too far, proving that you can have too much of a good thing...
Subjects: Fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, short stories, Australian Science fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general