Alien: Inferno's Fall cover art

Alien: Inferno's Fall

An Original Novel Based on the Films from 20th Century Studios

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Alien: Inferno's Fall

By: Philippa Ballantine
Narrated by: Julienne Irons
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

A gargantuan horseshoe-shaped ship appears over the mining planet Shānmén, unleashing a black rain of death that creates Xenomorph-like monsters worse than the darkest of nightmares.

As war breaks out among the colonies, a huge ship appears over the UPP mining planet Shānmén, releasing a horror that yields hideous transformations. Rescue is too far away, and the colonists’ only hope appears in the form of the vessel Righteous Fury. It carries the Jackals—an elite mix of former Colonial Marines and Royal Marines. Led by Zula Hendricks, the Jackals seek to rescue the few survivors from the depths of the planet, but have they arrived on time?

©2022 Philippa Ballantine and Clara Carija (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing Adventure Fiction First Contact Genre Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction Tie-in Solar System Military Mining Transportation

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Alien: Covenant Origins cover art
Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey cover art
Predator: Incursion cover art
Cryptids cover art
Aliens vs. Predators: Rift War cover art
The Predator: Hunters and Hunted cover art
Station 3 cover art
Planetary Anthology Series: Pluto cover art
Derelict: Marines cover art
Jurassic Dead Box Set cover art
Alien: Out of the Shadows cover art
Alien 3 cover art
The Black cover art
Ice and Monsters cover art
Fathomless cover art
The Empyrean cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
Have listened to all the A&P books, this is just full of modern day politics. I'm expecting more from an alien book, so far the worst by far.

Disappointing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Inferno's fall picks up on the 'border bombing' events developed in Free Leagues excellent RPG series, and also loosely ties up with 'Colony War' and 'Into Charybdis'. This overarching plot is by far the books greatest asset as it teases to reveal more about the enigmatic engineers.

Unfortunately, whilst there are plenty of interesting ideas the writing is only so-so, and in places skirts with fan-fiction. Sections of the novel do show promise, particularly the middle act where the inevitable horror erupts, but sadly, a selection of mainly poor and stereotypical characters mixed with cheesy inconsistent action sequences unpin most of the the potential.

To surmise, though there are a scattering memorable moments, it's the second disappointing Alien novel in a row, perhaps slightly weaker (though less misguided) than Colony War.

A final note on the narration, whilst I found it bareable after a while, Juliette Iron's delivery and emphasis is rather strange, try before you buy.

For hardcore fans only...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really enjoyed this one.
Ignore the people who say it is the same. They all are to a certain extent.
This one had a few new twists and sets the series just for an interesting new direction.

Really enjoyed this one

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The synthetic daughter of Davis is an excellent character and horror and tragedy abound as mysteries unfold and survivors try to elude the various xenomorphic mutations . ..an imaginative world and future with lots of descriptive pleasure. I am there with the Jackels (marines) , then deep in the mines , but no face huggers or queen .,so a bit more promethius than Alien . Thanks for an expressive interesting escapist read

Enjoyable night time listening

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Part way through chapter 7 whilst driving, I realised once again I didn't know what was going on.

Mid-Mid-Mid-Hi-Loooooooow
Mid-Mid-Mid-Hi-Loooooooow
Mid-Mid-Mid-Hi-Loooooooow

That's all my mind would hear, the narrator's repetitive speech pattern, often through characters spoken words stopping the differentiation.

There were moments showing what she was capable of, when there was hurrying or swearing in anger. It would break the sleep spell, but I'd be lost as to what happened up to that point.

obviously capable, but called it in that week and defaulted to 'putting the kids to bed' voice.

I can't comment much on the story.

Didn't finish, repetitive pattern narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Initially, from reading the reviews, I was sceptical and almost gave this book a miss. However, I am a big fan of the Alien franchise, and frankly will listen to anything Xenonorph related.

Upon concluding the book, I felt, the reviews refering to the political leaning of this entry were a little harsh.

The Alien story has always been about the Big Corp leaning on the "little guy", with the Aliens being the additional horror aspect breaking that. So, I was confused as to why reviews put this book down for following this formula.

If youre an Alien fan you will enjoy. I would have rated it a little higher, but I have never really been a fan of the Engineer concept from Prometheus onwards. But is was fun.

Ignore Some Reviews

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Dreadful stilted narration - almost impossible to listen to which ruined an otherwise good albeiet meandering story. A bit of trite racist anti-british rhetoric snuck in at the end by the author was a tad disappointing, as that effort would have been better spent improving the overall pace and direction of the story. Not the best from this author. Her sequel to this however is genuinely excellent!

Disappointed

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Don't let the slightly misleading cover art deter you, this stands imho as one of the best Alien novels, possibly my favourite. The detailed lore, characters to actually care about, and general respect paid to the canon/universe is all on point, and special mention for the narration as well

Top-notch world-building & characters

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Loved this, the whole story to the and the inclusion of the let’s say ‘beings’ got me hooked as there isn’t much lure in other books.

Great book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
As a fan of the series that has gone over all other book, this is a mediocre one, in some details:
- Starts with a bit of interesting world building, got me interested where it can go, and then it falls flat. This could have been so much better, I can’t express how disappointed I felt at the end by the story, there is a good element at the end, but overall a letdown. Also why in the world the focus is now more on the terrible Prometheus story-line, than on aliens. How can you run out of idea how to make Aliens interesting, the Prometheus should be forgotten.
- The reader was so monotonous, that this is one of the best books to put you to sleep, honestly this could have been done better by a random person.
- And on a note, once again to many references to current culture and countries, as per a review of a previous book, the world would have changed in the future

Not impressed

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews