How long does it take to read The Caves of Steel?
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov takes about 4 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Robot series
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About 4 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1953. 246 pages, about 67,650 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 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 62 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the future you will walk down the crowded streets of New York City not knowing if the bodies brushing past you are humans or androids. With tensions already mounting between humans and robots, the murder of a Spacer must be handled in a politically-correct fashion so Detective Elijah Baley is assigned a robot partner. Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw become like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Law & Order s Detectives Lennie Brisco and Ed Green, and Training Day s Detective Alonzo Harris and Officer Jake Hoyt disparate partners who must work together to solve a crime. The only problem is, Baley doesn't trust anyone not his boss, not his wife, and certainly not his robot partner.
Subjects: Robots, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Interplanetary voyages, Murder, American Science fiction
