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How long does it take to read The Gods Themselves?

Isaac Asimov

The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov takes about 5 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 49 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1972. 317 pages, about 87,175 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 41 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 49 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 38 minutes

The page count is the median across 49 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The year is 2100 A.D.… And Man no longer stands alone in the universe. Now there are other worlds, other living beings. Alien beings who mate in threes and live on pure energy. New breeds of humans who have created their own environment and freed themselves from every social and sexual taboo. Yes, it is the future of new worlds, ever-changing worlds. And yet among them there is still Earth. Earth, where Man still strives to be the best. To advance himself beyond all other beings and their worlds. And this final, glorious step in mankind’s technical progress has been achieved: the discovery of an unlimited, non-polluting energy source. But what seems to be progress may, in reality, end in complete tragedy. Earth’s unlimited energy source is about to trigger unlimited destruction—and the end of a universe.

Subjects: Hugo Award Winner, Science fiction, American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Technology and civilization, Fiction

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