How long does it take to read The Tragedy of the Moon?
The Tragedy of the Moon by Isaac Asimov takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Previous: The Left Hand of the Electron Next: Of Matters Great and Small
About 4 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1973. 221 pages, about 60,775 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Collection of seventeen nonfiction science essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction A — About the Moon The Tragedy of the Moon The Triumph of the Moon Moon Over Babylon The Week Excuse B — About Other Small Worlds The World Ceres The Clock in the Sky C — About Carbon The One and Only The Unlikely Twins D — About Micro-organisms Through The Microglass Down From The Amoeba The Cinderella Compound E — About the Thyroid Gland Doctor, Doctor, Cut My Throat F — About Society Lost in Non-Translation The Ancient and the Ultimate By The Numbers G — And (You Guessed It!) About Me The Cruise And I (July 1973) Academe And I
Subjects: Science, Addresses, essays, lectures, Sciences, Mond, Wissenschaft, Moon
