How long does it take to read Forward the Foundation?
Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov takes about 8 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Foundation series
Previous: Prelude to Foundation Next: Foundation
About 8 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1993. 447 pages, about 122,925 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 42 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
During the whole Foundation series, one man has always had his hand in the development of a galaxy. Merely hinted at in previous books, visited off and on for historical background - finally here delved into as deep as one can go - the demystified Hari Seldon. This follows about 40 years of his life, and traces his progress in the development of Psychohistory - the pseudo-mathematical science that would one day save the galaxy. If you have read the Foundation series, either in it's entirety or just pieces, this is a must read. It also (if memory serves) is the last book Asimov wrote before his death - the final pages describing Hari Seldon's final moments of life mirroring his own. A truly beautiful read.
Subjects: Fiction, Historians, Ficción, Prophecy, Psychohistory, Science fiction
