How long does it take to read Empire in Black and Gold?
Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky takes about 11 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Shadows of the apt
Next: Dragonfly Falling
About 11 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 624 pages, about 171,600 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Lowlands' city states have lived in peace for decades, hailed as bastions of civilization. Yet that peace is about to end. A distant empire has been conquering neighbours with highly trained soldiers and sophisticated combat techniques. And the city states are its desirable new prize. Only the ageing Stenwold Maker - spymaster, artificer and statesman - forsees the threat, as the empire's armies march ever closer. So it falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of the cities' leaders. He sees that war will sweep through their lands, destroying everything in its path. But to warn his people, he must stay alive.
Subjects: Fiction, Magic, Espionage, Fiction, fantasy, general, Railroads, fiction, Shadows of the Apt
