How long does it take to read Empire of Silence?
Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio takes about 11 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2018. 612 pages, about 168,300 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives--even the Emperor himself--against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and into the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.
Subjects: Fiction, Space warfare, Human-alien encounters, Gladiators, Life on other planets, Fiction, science fiction, space opera
