How long does it take to read A Memory Called Empire?
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine takes about 8 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Teixcalaan
About 8 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2019. 464 pages, about 127,600 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Won the 2020 Hugo for Best Novel. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare is posted far from her mining station home, to the Empire's glorious capital. Yet when she arrives, she discovers her predecessor was murdered. But no-one will admit his death wasn't accidental - and she might be next. Mahit must navigate the capital's deadly halls of power, while hunting the killer. She must also somehow stop the Empire from annexing her fiercely independent colony. As she sinks deeper into this seductive yet unfamiliar culture, Mahit engages in intrigues of her own. For she's hiding an extraordinary technological secret, one which might destroy her station and its way of life.Or it might save them all from annihilation.
Subjects: LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy, Hugo Award Winner, Ambassadors, Fiction, Murder, Extraterrestrial beings
