How long does it take to read Expanded Universe?
Expanded Universe by Robert A. Heinlein takes about 10 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 40 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1980. 582 pages, about 160,050 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Very relevant to current events. This is a collection of Heinlein’s SF stories, other stories, and articles, beginning with his first SF story in 1939, and including stories & articles through the 1970s. Most have been previously published. In this collection, published in 1980, Heinlein provides a foreword to each story and article, to place them in context, both in terms of personal circumstances, thoughts, and the broader context of science & technology, WWII, and the development and use of catastrophic weapons of war. The underlying themes of science, technology, and war, and how we humans respond to these, make Heinlein's stories and articles timeless, and very relevant to the current times.
Subjects: American Science fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, general
