How long does it take to read Foundation and Empire?
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov takes about 4 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Foundation series
Previous: Foundation Next: Second Foundation
About 4 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1945. 253 pages, about 69,575 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 82 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon.
Subjects: Fiction, Psychohistory, Life on other planets, American Science fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
