How long does it take to read The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction?
Short Novels of the 1950s
Isaac Asimov, Charles Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Poul Anderson, Charles V. de Vet, Katherine MacLean, Walter M. Miller Jr., Frederik Pohl, Frank M. Robinson, Eric Frank Russell, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, Philip José Farmer
The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction by Isaac Asimov, Charles Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Poul Anderson, Charles V. de Vet, Katherine MacLean, Walter M. Miller Jr., Frederik Pohl, Frank M. Robinson, Eric Frank Russell, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn, Philip José Farmer takes about 9 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1988. 503 pages, about 138,325 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 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Age of the Troika - essay by Isaac Asimov Flight to Forever - novella by Poul Anderson The Martian Way - novelette by Isaac Asimov Second Game - novelette by Charles V. De Vet and Katherine MacLean Dark Benediction - novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr. The Midas Plague - novella by Frederik Pohl The Oceans Are Wide - novella by Frank M. Robinson And Then There Were None - novella by Eric Frank Russell (variant of ... And Then There Were None) Baby Is Three - novella by Theodore Sturgeon Firewater - novella by William Tenn The Alley Man - novella by Philip José Farmer
Subjects: American Science fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, American fiction
