How long does it take to read Pebble in the Sky?
Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov takes about 4 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Galactic Empire
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About 4 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1950. 223 pages, about 61,325 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 42 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Pebble in the Sky is Asimov's first full length novel. It begins with a retired tailor from the mid-20th Century, who is accidentally pitched forward into the future. By then, Earth has become radioactive and is a low-status part of a vast Galactic Empire. There is both a mystery and a power-struggle, and a lot of debate and human choices. The originality of the S.F. work is the choice of a very ordinary man as the story's protagonist, rather than the more typical space opera hero.
Subjects: American Science fiction, Science fiction, Dystopias, Time travel, Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
