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How long does it take to read The Year's Best Science Fiction - Eighth Annual Collection?

Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Lethem

The Year's Best Science Fiction - Eighth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois, Jonathan Lethem takes about 11 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Part of The Year's Best Science Fiction

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About 11 hours 26 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1991. 624 pages, about 171,600 words.

23 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 19 hours 4 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 11 hours 26 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 7 hours 9 minutes

The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Mr. Boy / James Patrick Kelly The Shobie's story / Ursula Le Guin The caress / Greg Egan A braver thing / Charles Sheffield We see things differently / Bruce Sterling And the angels sing / Kate Wilhelm Past magic / Ian R. MacLeod Bears discover fire / Terry Bisson The all-consuming / Lucius Shepard and Robert Frazier Personal silence / Molly Gloss Invaders / John Kessel The Cairene purse / Michael Moorcock The coon rolled down and ruptured his larinks : a squeezed novel by Mr. Skunk / Dafydd ab Hugh Tower of Babylon / Ted Chiang The death artist / Aleaxander Jablokov The first since ancient Persia / John Brunner Inertia / Nancy Kress Learning to be me / Greg Egan Cibola / Connie Willis Walking the moons / Jonathan Letham Rainmaker cometh / Ian McDonald Hot sky / Robert Silverberg White city / Lewis Shiner Love and sex among the invertebrates / Pat Murphy The Hemingway hoax / Joe Haldeman

Subjects: American Science fiction, Science fiction, american

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