It takes the average reader 5 hours and 11 minutes to read New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales by Stephen Webb
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This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories – all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers – dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages. This includes aspects of alien life forms, transmogrification, pandemics, life on Mars, android robots, big data, matter transmission and impact events to name but a few. The short stories are reprinted in full alongside extensive commentaries which also examine some of the latest scientific thinking surrounding...
New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales by Stephen Webb is 305 pages long, and a total of 77,775 words.
This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 95% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 5 minutes to read New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales aloud.
New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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