How long does it take to read Great Science Fiction?
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Gregory Benford, Robert L. Forward, Paul J. Nahin, Charles Sheffield, Kurd Laßwitz, Vernor Vinge, Fred Hoyle, Philip Latham, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, G. Harry Stine, J. R. Pierce, Larry Eisenberg, Jesse F. Bone, James McConnell, James Tiptree, Jr., Chad Oliver, Morton Klass, Suzette Haden Elgin, Mario Pei
Great Science Fiction by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Gregory Benford, Robert L. Forward, Paul J. Nahin, Charles Sheffield, Kurd Laßwitz, Vernor Vinge, Fred Hoyle, Philip Latham, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, G. Harry Stine, J. R. Pierce, Larry Eisenberg, Jesse F. Bone, James McConnell, James Tiptree, Jr., Chad Oliver, Morton Klass, Suzette Haden Elgin, Mario Pei takes about 7 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 400 pages, about 110,000 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
White Creatures - short story by Gregory Benford The Singing Diamond - short story by Robert L. Forward Publish and Perish - short story by Paul J. Nahin Skystalk - novelette by Charles Sheffield The Universal Library - short story by Kurd Lasswitz (trans. of Die Universalbibliothek 1904) Long Shot - short story by Vernor Vinge Blackmail - short story by Fred Hoyle Jeannette's Hands - short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham] The Warm Space - novelette by David Brin The Wind from the Sun - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke Industrial Accident - novelette by G. Harry Stine [as by Lee Correy] Choice - short story by John R. Pierce The Winnowing - short story by Isaac Asimov Dr. Snow Maiden - short story by Larry Eisenberg On the Fourth Planet - short story by J. F. Bone Learning Theory - short story by James McConnell [as by James V. McConnell] Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death - short story by James Tiptree, Jr. Transfusion - novelette by Chad Oliver In the Beginning - short story by Morton Klass Modulation in All Things - short story by Suzette Haden Elgin The Bones of Charlemagne - novelette by Mario Pei [as by Mario A. Pei]
Subjects: Science fiction, Scientists' writings
