Book · by Octavia E. Butler · first published 1980
How many pages is Wild Seed?
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler has a median of 279 pages across 9 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 279 to 288 pages.
How long will Wild Seed take you?
Page count of every edition, by year
Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.
Editions counted
The 9 editions behind the figures above, newest first. 1 more edition was set aside because the page count was less than half or more than 2.2 times the median, which usually means an abridged text, an omnibus, or a typing error. Open Library lists 18 editions of this work in all languages and formats.
| Year | Publisher | Format | Pages | Open Library |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | – | 288 | OL29131501M |
| 2012 | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | – | 288 | OL29131498M |
| 2012 | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. | – | 288 | OL29735490M |
| 2001 | Warner Books | – | 306 | OL6790116M |
| 1999 | Warner Books | – | 279 | OL15484313M |
| 1988 | Grand Central Publishing | – | 279 | OL7534875M |
| 1980 | Doubleday | – | 248 | OL4405044M |
| 1980 | Popular Library | – | 279 | OL21441524M |
| 1980 | Sidgwick and Jackson | – | 248 | OL14985551M |
More by Octavia E. Butler
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All 6 books by Octavia E. Butler with page counts
Questions
- How many pages is Wild Seed?
- About 279 pages: that is the median of 9 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 248 to 306 pages.
- How long does it take to read Wild Seed?
- About 4 h 55 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 10 days.
- How many words is Wild Seed?
- Roughly 77,000 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)).