How long does it take to read Wastelands--Stories of the Apocalypse?
John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Paolo Bacigalupi, M. Rickert, Jonathan Lethem, George R. R. Martin, Tobias S. Buckell, Cory Doctorow, James Van Pelt, Richard Kadrey, Catherine Wells, Jerry Oltion, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Octavia E. Butler, Carol Emshwiller, Neal Barrett Jr., Dale Bailey, David Grigg, John Langan
Wastelands--Stories of the Apocalypse by John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Paolo Bacigalupi, M. Rickert, Jonathan Lethem, George R. R. Martin, Tobias S. Buckell, Cory Doctorow, James Van Pelt, Richard Kadrey, Catherine Wells, Jerry Oltion, Gene Wolfe, Nancy Kress, Octavia E. Butler, Carol Emshwiller, Neal Barrett Jr., Dale Bailey, David Grigg, John Langan takes about 6 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 343 pages, about 94,325 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 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: science fiction, aquifers, dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, fiction, armageddon
