How long does it take to read The Foundation Trilogy?
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov takes about 11 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Galactic Empire
Previous: Pebble in the Sky Next: The Currents of Space
About 11 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1950. 605 pages, about 166,375 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 54 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
- Foundation - Foundation and Empire - Second Foundation Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are some of the great masterworks of science fiction. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women working to preserve humanity’s light against an inexorable tide of darkness and violence. Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire—still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire’s glory turns the vast imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon. But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called The Mule, a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets… a power that can turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave.
Subjects: American Science fiction, Fiction, Psychohistory, Science fiction, Life on other planets, Prophecies
