How long does it take to read The World of Ā?
The World of Ā by A. E. van Vogt takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Null-A
Next: The Players of Null-A
About 4 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1948. 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 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Gilbert Gosseyn, a man living in an apparent utopia where those with superior understanding and mental control rule the rest of humanity, wants to be tested by the giant Machine that determines such superiority. However, he finds that his memories are false. In his search for his real identity, he discovers that he has extra bodies that are activated when he dies (so that, in a sense, he cannot be killed), that a galactic society of humans exists outside the Solar system, a large interstellar empire wishes to conquer both the Earth and Venus (inhabited by masters of non-Aristotelian logic), and he has extra brain matter that, when properly trained, can allow him to move matter with his mind.
Subjects: Canadian Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Science fiction
