The Ministry of Time
- 384
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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About the book
The Ministry of Time is a 2024 debut novel by Kaliane Bradley. It was originally published by Hodder & Stoughton. The novel is a sci-fi romance about a government employee in the newly founded Ministry of Time, taking care of one of the first time-travellers, known as "expats".
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 693 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 82% of the weight and the score stays at 7.4 — the Science fiction average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.0 | 6 | 1% |
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 687 | 99% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“They had us in the first half. Not gonna lie.I was all aboard for a time travel adventure. This is super light when it comes to the “science” in the fiction. Time travel technology exists, secretly, of course, but we don't know how it works…”
“One of my favorite things to wonder is what a random person from the distant past would think of today’s world. If plucked from their time and dropped into ours, what would they think of electricity, internet, modern medicine? What about smaller stuff, like the…”
Frequently asked
How long is The Ministry of Time?
It has 384 pages — shorter than 63% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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