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How many pages is Prelude to Foundation?

Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov has a median of 448 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 433 to 467 pages.

Median pages
448
11 editions counted
Range
403–493
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
7.9h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
123k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Prelude to Foundation take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
7 h 54 min
At 30 min a day
16 days
At 1 hour a day
8 days

Page count of every edition, by year

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

40045050019902000201020201988: 403 pages1988: 461 pages1988: 403 pages1988: 470 pages1988: 432 pages1989: 493 pages1989: 434 pages1999: 493 pages2020: 448 pages2021: 464 pagesmedian 448
400450500200020201988: 403 pages1988: 461 pages1988: 403 pages1988: 470 pages1988: 432 pages1989: 493 pages1989: 434 pages1999: 493 pages2020: 448 pages2021: 464 pagesmedian 448
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 43 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021HarperCollins Publishers Limited–464OL33460043M
2020Del Rey–448OL34127784M
1999Tandem LibrarySchool & Library Binding493OL8188850M
1989SpectraMass Market Paperback493OL7824293M
1989Bantam Books–434OL21251390M
1988Easton Press–403OL1799955M
1988Grafton Books–461OL1906628M
1988Doubleday–403OL2402762M

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Questions

How many pages is Prelude to Foundation?
About 448 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 403 to 493 pages.
How long does it take to read Prelude to Foundation?
About 7 h 54 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 16 days.
How many words is Prelude to Foundation?
Roughly 123,000 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).