How long does it take to read Of Matters Great and Small?
Of Matters Great and Small by Isaac Asimov takes about 4 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
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About 4 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1975. 258 pages, about 70,950 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 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Collection of seventeen scientific essays. It was the eleventh of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. "Constant as the Northern Star" (August 1973) "Signs of the Times" (September 1973) "The Mispronounced Metal" (October 1973) "The Figure of the Fastest" (November 1973) "The Figure of the Farthest" (December 1973) "The Eclipse and I" (January 1974) "Dance of the Luminaries" (February 1974) "The Uneternal Atoms" (March 1974) "A Particular Matter" (April 1974) "At Closest Range" (May 1974) "The Double-Ended Candle" (June 1974) "The Inevitability of Life" (Science Digest, June 1974) "As Easy as Two Plus Three" (July 1974) "Updating the Asteroids" (August 1974) "Look Long upon a Monkey" (September 1974) "O Keen-eyed Peerer into the Future!" (October 1974) "Skewered!" (November 1974)
Subjects: Science, Astronomy
