How long does it take to read One Second After?
One Second After by William R. Forstchen takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 352 pages, about 96,800 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When an electromagnetic pulse strikes the United States without warning, phones, appliances and vehicles fail at once in Black Mountain, North Carolina. John Matherson, a retired army colonel who teaches history at a local college, is raising two daughters on his own. His younger daughter has Type 1 diabetes and needs insulin that must stay refrigerated. As stranded motorists arrive, food runs short, medicine dwindles and nobody can reach the outside world. The novel follows how Matherson and the townspeople try to cope with a country thrown back into a pre-modern age.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, North carolina, fiction, Imaginary wars and battles, Fiction
