How long does it take to read Second Foundation?
Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov takes about 4 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of Foundation series
Previous: Foundation and Empire Next: Foundation's Edge
About 4 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1953. 237 pages, about 65,175 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 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 81 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After years of struggle, the Foundation lay in ruins -- destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it was rumored that there was a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule had failed to find it the first time -- but now he was certain he knew where it lay. The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arkady Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists girded for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation began their desperate search. They too wanted the Second Foundation destroyed... before it destroyed them.
Subjects: Fiction, Psychohistory, Life on other planets, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Psychological fiction
