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Arthur C. Clarke

Nine Billion Names is 240 pages, about 4 hours 24 minutes at 250 words a minute.

How long Nine Billion Names takes to read

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How long each takes

Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang 5.8 h

Exhalation Ted Chiang 6.2 h

Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut 5.7 h

The Wind's Twelve Quarters Ursula K. Le Guin 5.9 h

Bloodchild and Other Stories Octavia E. Butler, Janina Edwards, consonni, Arrate Hidalgo, Nadia Barkate 3.8 h

Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory Raphael Bob-Waksberg 4.7 h

City Clifford D. Simak 4.7 h

The Asimov Chronicles Isaac Asimov 13.9 h

Short Stories H. G. Wells 17.2 h

Tales of Space and Time H. G. Wells 4.4 h

100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Larry Niven, Charles E. Fritch, Bill Pronzini, George R. R. Martin, Jerome Bixby, Ambrose Bierce, Edward D. Hoch, Alexei Panshin, Martin Gardner, Steven Utley, Gregory Benford, Richard Wilson, Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, Damon Knight, Reginald Bretnor, Frederik Pohl, Laurence M. Janifer, James Blish, Joanna Russ, Ray Russell, Edward Wellen, Donald E. Westlake, Ben Bova, Barry N. Malzberg, Fred Saberhagen, Fritz Leiber, Karen Anderson, Bob Shaw, William F. Nolan, Henry Slesar, Dannie Plachta, Edward Rager, Hayford Peirce, Jeffrey S. Hudson, Walter Tevis, James Edward Sutherland, Joe L. Hensley, Duane Ackerson, Stephen Goldin, Robert Emmett Toomey Jr., Alfred Bester, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Slade Bond, F. M. Busby, Maggie Nadler, Grant Carrington, Keith Laumer, E. Michael Blake, James E. Gunn, Paul Dellinger, Lee Killough, Thomas F. Monteleone, Robert T. Kurosaka, James E. Thompson, Robert L. Fish, Bruce McAllister, Paul Bond, Mildred Downey Broxon, Alan Edward Nourse, David Bischoff, Ralph Milne Farley, Daniel A. Darlington, Walt Liebscher, K. W. MacAnn 5.0 h

Short Stories Philip K. Dick 7.7 h

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