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Captive Scorpio

64.3% complete
1978
2024
1 time
See 20
1 - Before the Dawn
2 - An Aerial Reception
3 - Barty Vessler, Strom of Calimbrev
4 - Knavery in Drak's City
5 - I Drop in on a Great Lady
6 - The Black and Whites Make a Promise
7 - News of Dayra
8 - Queen Lushfymi of Lome
9 - Into Hawkwa Country
10 - Of the Pride of a Rapa Paktun
11 - Zankov
12 - Concerning the Throne of Vallia
13 - The Battle Maidens Squabble
14 - "You May Choose the Manner of Your Death"
15 - Of San Guiskwain the Witherer
16 - The Fight Below the Voller
17 - The Gathering of Shadows
18 - The Hand of Phu-Si-Yantong
19 - Vondium Burns
20 - Delia of Vallia
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Copyright ©, 1978, by DAW Books, Inc.
No dedication.
"Oh, yes, it is common knowledge," said Travok Ott expansively, leaning back, sipping his light wine with a most delicate air.
May contain spoilers
The flier hurtled out of the smoke into the east, and at our backs the Suns of Scorpio threw a last sheeting refulgence of jade and crimson into the nighted sky of Kregen.
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Added: 29-Jul-2022
Last Updated: 06-Mar-2024

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 01-Aug-1978
DAW Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Aug-1978
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$1.50
Pages*:
190
Catalog ID:
UW1394
Pub Series #:
301
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   26 Feb 2024 - 3 Mar 2024
Internal ID:
23237
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-879-97394-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-879-97394-0
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Josh Kirby  - Cover Artist
THE FALL
OF VONDRIA


Dray Prescot, Earthman on Kregen, that wonder world circling the twin suns of Antares, had risen high in the empire of Vallia, but luck could not always sustain him.

When, at last, all the forces opposed to his lands, his princess, his emperor, and to him personally converged, it was to produce the darkest hour of his long career.  For treason struck at the court, while rebel armies marched from the bdcklands, the war fleets of enemy nations were aloft, and the uncanny wizardry of a master scientist launched a spell of doom for all Prescot held dear.

With his back to the wall, Dray Prescot faced that time of peril with unflinching will... until the cruelest blow of all was struck: his warrior-daughter Dayra rode in the vanguard of his foes!

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -
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BEFORE IN PAPERBACK

"For sheer pageantry and character development, Akers far outshines any other writer writing this type of story...."
- Jackson (Tenn.) Sun

"Although Kregen has many aspects of Barsoom, it is more reminiscent of John Norman's Gor."
- Erbania
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Notes and Comments:
First Printing, August 1978
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01-Aug-1978
DAW Books
Mass Market Paperback

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Author(s)

 Alan Burt Akers
Birth: 14 Jan 1921 London, England, UK
Death: 16 Dec 2005

Notes:
Alan Burty Akers is an alias used by Henry Kenneth Bulmer when writing the Dray Prescott series of books.

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