How long does it take to read The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three?
Jonathan Strahan, Ted Chiang, Elizabeth Bear, Peter S. Beagle, Jeff VanderMeer, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ian McDonald, Holly Black, John Kessel, Paul McAuley, Garth Nix, Holly Phillips, Stephen Baxter, Stephen King, Robert Reed, Joan Aiken, Margo Lanagan, Ted Kosmatka, Kij Johnson, Rachel Swirsky, Greg Egan, Hannu Rajaniemi, Maureen F. McHugh, M. Rickert, Richard Bowes, Ken Scholes, Kelly Link
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Three by Jonathan Strahan, Ted Chiang, Elizabeth Bear, Peter S. Beagle, Jeff VanderMeer, Paolo Bacigalupi, Ian McDonald, Holly Black, John Kessel, Paul McAuley, Garth Nix, Holly Phillips, Stephen Baxter, Stephen King, Robert Reed, Joan Aiken, Margo Lanagan, Ted Kosmatka, Kij Johnson, Rachel Swirsky, Greg Egan, Hannu Rajaniemi, Maureen F. McHugh, M. Rickert, Richard Bowes, Ken Scholes, Kelly Link takes about 9 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2009. 496 pages, about 136,400 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: fiction, Fantasy fiction, Science fiction, Short stories, adventure, fantasy short stories
