How long does it take to read Pump Six and Other Stories?
Paolo Bacigalupi, Jonathan Davis, James Chen, Eileen Stevens
Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi, Jonathan Davis, James Chen, Eileen Stevens takes about 4 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 248 pages, about 68,200 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 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo Bacigalupi's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best of Paolo Bacigalupi's work, including the Hugo nominee "Yellow Card Man," the Nebula-and Hugo-nominated story "The People of Sand and Slag," and the Sturgeon Award-winning story "The Calorie Man."
Subjects: American Science fiction, American Short stories, Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
