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How many pages is Foundation and Earth?

Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov has a median of 494 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 478 to 496 pages.

Median pages
494
7 editions counted
Range
356–512
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.7h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
136k
at 275 words per page
Book 7 of Foundation series
Series in order

How long will Foundation and Earth take you?

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Reading time
8 h 42 min
At 30 min a day
18 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

40050019902000201020201986: 356 pages1986: 462 pages1986: 494 pages1987: 494 pages1987: 494 pages2004: 499 pages2021: 512 pagesmedian 494
400500200020201986: 356 pages1986: 462 pages1986: 494 pages1987: 494 pages1987: 494 pages2004: 499 pages2021: 512 pagesmedian 494
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 48 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021HarperCollins Publishers Limited–512OL33446300M
2004Bantam Books–499OL24207576M
1987Ballantine Books–494OL22362947M
1987Ballantine Books–494OL24971243M
1986Doubleday–356OL21336809M
1986Grafton BooksPaperback462OL2458262M
1986Doubleday–494OL7439997M

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Questions

How many pages is Foundation and Earth?
About 494 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 356 to 512 pages.
How long does it take to read Foundation and Earth?
About 8 h 42 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 18 days.
How many words is Foundation and Earth?
Roughly 136,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).