How long does it take to read Exhalation?
Exhalation by Ted Chiang takes about 6 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2014. 338 pages, about 92,950 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Exhalation is a science fiction story that takes the second law of thermodynamics as its central idea. It is told as a long journal entry written by a scientist who belongs to a race of mechanical beings driven by air. These beings breathe by exchanging lungs filled with pressurized argon drawn from underground. When many clocks all seem to run fast although none is faulty, the narrator suspects that the problem lies not in the clocks but in people's brains, which might be computing more slowly, and sets out to investigate.
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Subjects: Fiction, short stories (single author), Fiction, science fiction, short stories, American Short stories, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Science Fiction / General
