How long does it take to read Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright?
[17 essays]
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright by Isaac Asimov takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Previous: The Planet That Wasn't Next: The Road to Infinity
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 240 pages, about 66,000 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 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A collection of seventeen scientific essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. "It's a Wonderful Town!" (May 1976) "Surprise! Surprise!" (June 1976) "Making It!" (July 1976) "Moving Ahead" (August 1976) "To the Top" (September 1976) "Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright" (October 1976) "The Comet That Wasn't" (November 1976) "The Sea-Green Planet" (December 1976) "Discovery by Blink" (January 1977) "Asimov's Corollary" (February 1977) "The Magic Isle" (March 1977) "The Dark Companion" (April 1977) "Twinkle, Twinkle, Microwaves" (May 1977) "The Final Collapse" (June 1977) "Of Ice and Men" (July 1977) "Oblique the Centric Globe" (August 1977) "The Opposite Poles" (September 1977)
Subjects: Science, Popular works, Astronomy
