My Intro SF students voted against Dune, which has 185,000 words. I don't think they realize that our next book, "Fire Upon the Deep" has 285,000 words. I know because I downloaded it, converted it to plain text, then pasted it into Microsoft Word and did a word count. We are going to be reading this for two weeks. I tested their reading speed in class, and the average is about 400 words per minute. That means it will take them 11 hours to finish. I feel like I'm colonizing their brains.
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