How long does it take to read The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke?
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke by Arthur C. Clarke takes about 17 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 48 minutes
A long haul
First published 2001. 971 pages, about 267,025 words.
36 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 29 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a collection of 114 stories written by Arthur C. Clarke. The UK version has a front cover with the title as "Arthur C. Clarke: The Collected Stories", and the USA version as "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke", known by this name by both publishers. Many of the stories have a short introduction, which tells when and where the story was first published and the collection it was first collected in. They are arranged in mostly chronological order. The only missing story from this collection is called "When the Twerms Came" the story was published in book form in 'The View from Serendip' and 'More Than One Universe' collections.
Subjects: Sceince fiction, Short stories, Future speculation, NASA, Space, Extraterrestrial life
