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How many pages is The Light Fantastic?

The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett has a median of 250 pages across 11 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 216 to 264 pages.

Median pages
250
11 editions counted
Range
189–288
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
69k
at 275 words per page
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How long will The Light Fantastic 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
4 h 24 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.

2002503001990200020101986: 216 pages1986: 189 pages1986: 216 pages1988: 255 pages1988: 255 pages1995: 274 pages1995: 250 pages1997: 200 pages2000: 241 pages2009: 288 pages2012: 285 pagesmedian 250
2002503001990200020101986: 216 pages1986: 189 pages1986: 216 pages1988: 255 pages1988: 255 pages1995: 274 pages1995: 250 pages1997: 200 pages2000: 241 pages2009: 288 pages2012: 285 pagesmedian 250
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 11 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 60 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2012Corgi BooksPaperback285OL27604686M
2009Transworld Publishers Limited–288OL33408884M
2000HarperPaperbacks–241OL7286705M
1997Isis Large Print BooksPaperback200OL9637516M
1995ISIS–274OL23134577M
1995ISIS Large Print BooksHardcover250OL9536660M
1988New American Library–255OL24238671M
1988Penguin–255OL24517371M

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Questions

How many pages is The Light Fantastic?
About 250 pages: that is the median of 11 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 189 to 288 pages.
How long does it take to read The Light Fantastic?
About 4 h 24 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is The Light Fantastic?
Roughly 69,000 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).