How long does it take to read I, Robot?
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov takes about 4 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Robot series
Previous: Mother Earth Next: The Evitable Conflict
About 4 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1950. 245 pages, about 67,375 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 99 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
I, Robot is a fixup novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950 and were then compiled into a book for stand-alone publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies. The stories are woven together by a framing narrative in which the fictional Dr. Susan Calvin tells each story to a reporter (who serves as the narrator) in the 21st century. Although the stories can be read separately, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics.
Subjects: smear campaigns, supercomputers, computers, Frankenstein complex, hyperspace, heisenbugs
