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How many pages is Foundation and Empire?

Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov has a median of 230 pages across 19 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 224 to 247 pages.

Median pages
230
19 editions counted
Range
172–483
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
63k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
4 h 03 min
At 30 min a day
9 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

2004001960198020001952: 247 pages1952: 227 pages1952: 247 pages1964: 172 pages1966: 224 pages1971: 172 pages1971: 186 pages1972: 224 pages1973: 176 pages1973: 224 pages1979: 483 pages1980: 227 pages1983: 246 pages1991: 282 pages1991: 282 pages2004: 244 pages2008: 272 pages2016: 230 pages2018: 240 pagesmedian 230
200400197520001952: 247 pages1952: 227 pages1952: 247 pages1964: 172 pages1966: 224 pages1971: 172 pages1971: 186 pages1972: 224 pages1973: 176 pages1973: 224 pages1979: 483 pages1980: 227 pages1983: 246 pages1991: 282 pages1991: 282 pages2004: 244 pages2008: 272 pages2016: 230 pages2018: 240 pagesmedian 230
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover24744 h 21 min
Paperback22453 h 57 min

Editions counted

The 19 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 82 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2018HarperCollins Publishers–240OL34489024M
2016Harper Voyagerpaperback230OL28273512M
2008Bantam Bookspaperback272OL27279454M
2004Bantam Books–244OL3693745M
1991Spectra/Bantam BooksSchool & Library Binding282OL7973617M
1991Bantam Books–282OL1187090M
1983Granada–246OL22829943M
1980Doubleday BooksHardcover227OL10150283M

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Questions

How many pages is Foundation and Empire?
About 230 pages: that is the median of 19 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 172 to 483 pages.
How long does it take to read Foundation and Empire?
About 4 h 03 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is Foundation and Empire?
Roughly 63,000 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).