Robert Appleton

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2001
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Cosmic Sparks

0.5 - Alien Velocity (Apr-2012)
1 - Sparks in Cosmic Dust (Oct-2011)
2 - Cyber Sparks (Sep-2012)
3 - Pyro Canyon (Jun-2012)
3.5 - Borderline (Apr-2013)
4 - Alien Safari (Dec-2013)

Eleven Hour Fall Trilogy

1 - The Eleven Hour Fall (Jan-2014)
2 - The Elemental Crossing (Mar-2009)
3 - Kate of Kratos (Jan-2014)

Star Binder

1 - Star Binder (Feb-2018)
2 - Star Bound (Oct-2022)

Steam Clock Legacy

0.5 - The Mysterious Lady Law (Feb-2011)
1 - Prehistoric Clock (Feb-2012)
2 - Imperial Clock // A Tale of Two Sisters (Apr-2013)
2.5 - Yuletide Miracle (May-2013)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Running Out of Road

  • The Elemental Crossing

    Eleven Hour Fall Trilogy - 2

    'The Elemental Crossing' is the exciting sequel to Robert Appleton's 'The Eleven-Hour Fall'. After their hard-won escape from the mountain peaks and many perils of the desert, Kate and Jason are faced with their most difficult challenge yet on Kratos...

  • Godiva in the Firing Line

    The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack! Join Godiva Randall, the beautiful daughter of a powerful politician, as she puts her paratrooper unit's motto to the test. A delicate truce on Hoarfrost's icy moon is ab...

  • Claire De Lune

  • The Mythmakers

  • The Mysterious Lady Law

    Steam Clock Legacy - 0.5

    In a time of grand airships and steam-powered cars, the death of a penniless young maid will hardly make the front page. But part-time airship waitress and music hall dancer Julia Bairstow is shattered by her sister's murder. When Lady Law, the most ...

  • Sparks in Cosmic Dust

    Cosmic Sparks - 1

    The final frontier is shrinking. Interstellar Planetary Administration sanctions are forcing the border colonies of deep space into extinction. Kappa Max is one of the last major cutthroat outposts, home to the lawless and the lonely… --Varinia ...

  • Prehistoric Clock

    Steam Clock Legacy - 1

    Airship officer Verity Champlain is well-respected by her crew. But after a vital mission nearly goes wrong, she is having second thoughts about her career. Lord Garrett Embrey is on the run. The Leviacrum Council, the secretive scientific body th...

  • Alien Velocity

    Cosmic Sparks - 0.5

    Charlie Thorpe-Campbell is the greatest RAM-runner the world has ever seen -- and he knows it. On the verge of retirement from the sport, he is defending his title as champion of the annual orbital race one final time when he's suddenly hurtling away...



  • Pyro Canyon

    Cosmic Sparks - 3

    In honor of our second anniversary, Carina Press brings you four gripping novellas by some of genre fiction's hottest voices! Explore interstellar space, get caught up in a caper, dabble in the paranormal and solve a murder aboard a cruise ship in th...

  • Contrived Fate

    The police investigation into the tragic death of a popular local school girl leads to the arrest of Bladdington Academy teacher, John Wilkes. DCI Dick Starr, who was initially convinced of the teacher's guilt from the gathered forensic evidence, eve...

  • Cyber Sparks

    Cosmic Sparks - 2

    My name is Allegra Mondebay, and this is the story of my last days on Earth... Unlike my sparsely populated home, on Earth everything and everyone is plugged in. As a blacklisted model who needs to reboot my career, I can no longer resist the ulti...

  • Borderline

    Cosmic Sparks - 3.5

    Alone. Double-crossed. Pursued across thousands of miles of alien desert on his beloved hoverbike, Finnegan is holding onto two things dearer than life itself: the priceless biotech prize he's stolen, and the opportunity for revenge against the treac...

  • Imperial Clock // A Tale of Two Sisters

    Steam Clock Legacy - 2

    Facing a time of great turmoil across the Empire, Meredith and Sonja McEwan are the teenaged daughters of a disgraced scientist in Southsea, England. They've grown so close, so insular over the years, despising the world that despises them is all the...

  • Yuletide Miracle

    Steam Clock Legacy - 2.5

    By day, London’s Steam Emporium is a bustling Christmas market, an all-ages toyshop full of technological marvels. By night, its volunteers assemble -- a ragtag community of wounded servicemen and women -- under the tallest Christmas tree in Englan...

  • Alien Safari

    Cosmic Sparks - 4

    Warning! Wildlife may be dangerous. Proceed beyond this point at your own risk. When celebrated Omicron detective Ferrix Vaughn is called in to investigate a deadly breach on Hesperidia, a protected planet full of indigenous wildlife, he doesn't know...

  • The Eleven Hour Fall

    Eleven Hour Fall Trilogy - 1

    The complete adventures of deep space survivalist Kate Borrowdale in one novel-length volume. For survival. For love. On an unexplored alien planet. With the man of her dreams unconscious in her arms, terrain scout Kate must escape the treacherous p...

  • Kate of Kratos

    Eleven Hour Fall Trilogy - 3

    The final action-packed instalment in Robert Appleton's sci-fi survival trilogy. Jason Remington has been abducted by a monstrous creature. Having barely survived the ocean crossing, Kate Borrowdale must track him through an alien ...

  • Sunset on Ramree

    The Award-winning* novelette based on the deadliest crocodile attack ever recorded. On February 19th, 1945, one thousand Japanese soldiers retreated into the fetid mangrove swamps of Ramree Island hoping to escape their British enemy. However they so...



  • Cruel Deceit

    DI Bruce McCoy was too pre-occupied in torturing himself with mind games about his seemingly unjust enforced well publicised retirement to notice that his wife, Sally, manageress of the ‘Dreams come true' charity shop in Bladdington, was falling...

  • Tooth & Claw

    The age of steam meets the time of the dinosaurs in this rip-roaring short story set in the aftermath of Prehistoric Clock.With everything she owns packed onto her steam-powered penny farthing, nineteen-year-old Beth Rawtenstall is...

  • Cretaceous

    No matter how hard you try, no matter how far you look, you will never find this shop.It will find you. Dreams, desires, the most outlandish wishes: all are for sale at Esther May Morrow's timeless antiques and sundries store, for t...

  • Gin Rummy

  • The Little Shop of Wonders: Complete Anthology

    No matter how hard you try, no matter how far you look, you will never find this shop.It will find you.Dreams, desires, the most outlandish wishes: all are for sale at Esther May Morrow's timeless antiques and sundries store, for th...

  • Lot 62

    No matter how hard you try, no matter how far you look, you will never find this shop.It will find you. Dreams, desires, the most outlandish wishes: all are for sale at Esther May Morrow's timeless antiques and sundries store, for ...

  • Spellbound

  • The Conscripted Man

    No matter how hard you try, no matter how far you look, you will never find this shop. It will find you. Dreams, desires, the most outlandish wishes: all are for sale at Esther May Morrow's timeless antiques and sundries store, fo...

  • Phenomenal

    No matter how hard you try, no matter how far you look, you will never find this shop. It will find you. Dreams, desires, the most outlandish wishes: all are for sale at Esther May Morrow's timeless antiques and sundries store, fo...

  • The Temporal Man

    No matter how hard you try, no matter how far you look, you will never find this shop.It will find you. Dreams, desires, the most outlandish wishes: all are for sale at Esther May Morrow's timeless antiques and sundries store, for ...



  • Miss Olivia

    A celebrated gigolo of the future has an unusual problem-he's in love with a screen icon of the past. What he needs is a way back to Hollywood's Golden Age, and not just on his Virtual Reality headset. But there's no such thing as time travel.i...

  • Sharp Edge of Moonlight

    A murder investigation at an interstellar beauty pageant draws two detectives into a deadly mystery.Detectives Rappeneau and Thorpe-Campbell are from different worlds. One's a debonair number-cruncher with a posh accent, the other's...

  • Star Binder

    Star Binder - 1

    You could search for a million years and never find it. Everyone wants to harness its power. No one knows who built it or why. But it's calling to me. My name's Jim Trillion. Thirteen years old, a drifter, a grifter, an all-round n...

  • Angel Six Echo

    Beyond war. Beyond love. Into legend.Armed with a fabled combat suit left to her by a dying warrior race, Gabby Rojas enters the deadliest standoff of the war as a rogue sniper with one goal: to keep her husband alive at all costs. Dalton is a high s...

  • Star Bound

    Star Binder - 2

    The quest to solve an ancient riddle becomes an odyssey for the ages when Jim Trillion, Sergei and friends find themselves on the perilous path to the Fording—a long-lost device so powerful it may have created the Star Binder itself. With the t...

  • Kingdom

    Explore. Protect. Survive.When Jan has to leave Hesperidia for the first time in decades to attend a crucial summit, she’s forced to abandon the search for a missing keystone creature, the majestic cor’arkhis. Countless species in its sec...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Appleton has published 35 books.

Robert Appleton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Kingdom, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Robert Appleton, Running Out of Road, was published in November 2001.

Yes. Robert Appleton has 4 series.
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