The Eleven Hour Fall: Complete Trilogy

by Robert Appleton

Available for the first time--the complete adventures of astronaut survivalist Kate Borrowdale in one novel-length volume.

What if you fell from a great height...toward a ground you couldn't see...and hours later, you were still falling?

For survival, for love...on a distant alien planet. With the man of her dreams unconscious in her arms, terrain scout Kate Borrowdale must escape the treacherous peaks of Kratos and traverse a strange, hidden world beneath the clouds.

Includes all three (newly revised) books in the trilogy: The Eleven Hour Fall, The Elemental Crossing and Kate of Kratos.

242 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 29, 2012

About the author

Robert Appleton is a British science fiction and adventure author partial to tales of survival in far-flung locations. Many of his sci-fi books share the same universe as his popular Alien Safari series, though tend to feature standalone storylines. His rebellious characters range from an orphaned grifter on Mars to a lone woman gate-crashing the war in her biotech suit. His sci-fi readers regularly earn enough frequent flyer miles to qualify for a cross-galaxy voyage of their choosing. His publishers include Harlequin Carina Press, and he also ghost-writes novels in other genres. In his free time he hikes, plays soccer, and kayaks whenever he can. The night sky is his inspiration.

His work has been nominated for several awards, and in 2011 he won the EPIC Award for Best Historical Fiction.

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Reviews

[Hanne G · Rating 3 out of 5]

Underwhelming writing, boring over long alien attack action scenes, a female character badly written by a man, and limited plot. Interesting planet and life forms but this is a very simple story about a girl who likes a boy and they get stranded on an alien planet and have to survive the environment and predatory aliens, while meeting some friendly ones, and some other survivors. A series of disasters and gory attacks ensue. It plods on and on without much depth to the characters or development, and then it ends rather suddenly. Unnecessary gore and lame writing did not help.
The one that comes to mind is that allegedly the character’s thinking got “constipated” by being distracted. I liked some of the alien life forms, that was kind of interesting.

[Robert Romberger · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Eleven Hour Fall Trilogy

While this is billed as a SF adventure story, it is a bit light on the science and really heavy on the adventure. That is a good thing for this story and it lives up to the promise. The action is fast paced as two intrepid terrain scouts learn to live and love on a planet that is anything but Earth. A good read.

[Dr susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good sci fi adventure

The setting is incredibly imaginative, but the bodycount is high. Kate is not always a likeable character. The alien beings were fascinating and believable. Mandy was my favorite character. The story is engrossing and well-written.

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pretty decent scifi adventure, a Robinson Crusoe story about two explorer/scouts stranded on an alien planet. The first two chapters were about the most gripping, immediately involving openings in any book I have read in a long time. And the suspense never lets up. Interesting world building and a kickass heroine.