About 14 minutes
Wake (First 25,000 words) — Themes and Context
Other Worlds
3,166 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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Three of the shortest recorded reading commitments in this catalog. Times are estimates, not quality ratings.
About 14 minutes
Other Worlds
3,166 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
View Gutenberg source #33374About 19 minutes
Space Future
4,170 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
View Gutenberg source #30383About 20 minutes
Social Speculation
4,591 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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