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John Joseph Adams, Paolo Bacigalupi, Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, George R. R. Martin, Lauren Beukes, Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling, Jack McDevitt, Ann Aguirre, Cory Doctorow, Christopher Barzak, Genevieve Valentine, D. Thomas Minton, Nancy Kress, Ramsey Shehadeh, Orson Scott Card, David Brin, Robert Silverberg, Christie Yant, Megan Arkenberg, James Van Pelt, Tananarive Due, Milo James Fowler, Toiya Kristen Finley, Keffy R. M. Kehrli

Wastelands 2 by John Joseph Adams, Paolo Bacigalupi, Hugh Howey, Seanan McGuire, George R. R. Martin, Lauren Beukes, Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling, Jack McDevitt, Ann Aguirre, Cory Doctorow, Christopher Barzak, Genevieve Valentine, D. Thomas Minton, Nancy Kress, Ramsey Shehadeh, Orson Scott Card, David Brin, Robert Silverberg, Christie Yant, Megan Arkenberg, James Van Pelt, Tananarive Due, Milo James Fowler, Toiya Kristen Finley, Keffy R. M. Kehrli takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 10 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2013. 336 pages, about 92,400 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 16 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 10 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 51 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"This companion volume to the critically acclaimed Wastelands, offers thirty of the finest examples of post-apocalyptic short fiction." --Back cover.

Subjects: End of the world, Fiction, Armageddon, Regression (Civilization), Fin du monde, Romans, nouvelles

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