DRAY PRESCOT

Beneath the two suns of Antares, the planet Kregen was truly the wonder of the universe.  For there, at the inscrutable planning of unseen powers, had been gathered members of the great races of the galaxy, set down among Kregen's lands to become part of the wonderful semi-civilized cities and kingdoms of that world.

There, too, were natural humans and their strivings and ambitions colored and led the struggle to create a world of peace.  Dray Prescot, Earthman, had been brought there as an agent of the Star Lords, buy he had made himself into a rallying point of strength in Kregen's colorful history.

Now, when the worst war between the humanoid lands had finally concluded, Prescot again confronts the Star Lords, only to learn that the hard-won peace was just a transition to a great hemispheric invasion that was even then raiding over the horizon.

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GLADIATOR OF SCORPIO

Never a man to leave something half done, even when the powerful Star Lords commanded otherwise, the Earthman Dray Prescot knew his task on the mysterious continent of Havilfar was far from completed.

There were cruel conquerors to be overthrown, there was pursuit of the manhounds and their masters, and there was Delia, his princess.

Delia was coming - with an airfleet from Vallia - but before he could hope for help, there was to be the arena.  Could he survive the life of a gladiator against the killers and monsters of a spoiled queen while the Star Lords waited for his mission to be resumed?

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Previous novels
in the saga of Dray Prescot include:
1. TRANSIT TO SCORPIO
2. THE SUNS OF SCORPIO
3. WARRIOR OF SCORPIO
4. SWORDSHIPS OF SCORPIO
5. PRINCE OF SCORPIO
6. MANHOUNDS OF ANTARES

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THE STONE THAT NEVER CAME DOWN
by JOHN BRUNNER
DAW Book UY1150
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KREGEN!

That marvelous world circling the double-star Antares in the Constellation Scorpio has been the scene of many an exciting event as its myriad human and non-human races struggle between each other for ascendancy.  But for Dray Prescot, Earthman and Prince of Vallia, all of the electrifying aspects of his adventurous life on Kregen were to climax when the armies of Havilfar made their move toward his adopted homeland before he had fully solved the secret of their mysterious air fleets.

ARMADA OF ANTARES is the culmination of all his experiences - a peril-pitched novel, complete in itself, of an alien world stirred up to a life-or-death frenzy!

"Burroughs fans should indeed find something in Akers to relate to." - Bill Williams, Mostly About Books.

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Previous novels in the "Havilfar" cycle of the
saga of Dray Prescot:
MANHOUNDS OF ANTARES (UY1124 - $1.25)
ARENA OF ANTARES (UY1145 - $1.25)
FLIERS OF ANTARES (UY1165 - $1.25)
BLADESMEN OF ANTARES (UY1188 - $1.25)
AVENGER OF ANTARES (UY1208 - $1.25)

And now back in print:
SWORDSHIPS OF SCORPIO (UY1231 - $1.25)

SEA WOLVES Of SCORPIO

For a brief but wonderful moment it seemed as if Dray Prescot was on the road to victory - for he was aboard a Vallian ship bound for home with the secret of Vallia's enemies in his possession.  But Dray, the Earthman sent to the planet Kregen of the double-star Antares in Scorpio, had not fulfilled the mission of the unseen Star Lords - and until he did, there could be no escape from peril!

And peril came - in the form of hideous sea raiders, in the sharp edges of the dueling blades of a swordsman enemy, and in the horrid rites of the underground cult of the Silver Leem.  Dray Prescot's saga has been acclaimed as the best planetary adventure series since Burroughs stopped writing about Barsoom - and a legion of devoted readers will find that Avenger of Antares holds high the standard.

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Previous novels in the "Havilfar" cycle of the saga of Dray Prescot:
MANHOUNDS OF ANTARES (UY1124 - $1.25)
ARENA OF ANTARES (UY1145 - $1.25)
FLIERS OF ANTARES (UY1165 - $1.25)
BLADESMAN OF ANTARES (UY1188 - $1.25)

And don't miss the fabulous first novels:
TRANSIT TO SCORPIO (UY1169 - $1.25)
THE SUNS OF SCORPIO (UY1191 - $1.25)
WARRIOR OF SCORPIO (UY1212 - $1.25)

DRAY PRESCOT

The marvelous adventures of Dray Prescot on Kregen, the world of wonders that orbits the twin suns of Antares in Scorpio, have become a science fiction saga to rival and perhaps surpass the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and others of the heroic fantasy band.

This lone Earthman, once a pawn of cosmic powers, now enters a new cycle of his fabulous career as he rallies the warriors of Vallia for a final stand against the foes that have encircled them - and then, in an act of true Prescot bravado, undertakes single-handed to rescue three old friends from slavery in a distant land.

The beasts of Antares are many and terrifying, but Prescot does not belong to the faint-hearted.  He will need every ounce of courage this time!  So gird on your imaginative swords and join him!

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CHAMPION OF SCORPIO

The problem with being a spy is that you have to make friends with the enemy to learn anything.  And Dray Prescot, Earthman who had become prince of Vallia, was the kind of man who always stood by his friends.  So in his quest to learn the war secrets of Hamel, empire of the aircraft-makers, Dray found himself not only becoming blade-comrade to some of its greatest warriors but of championing the very life of its cruelly beautiful queen.

And though Dray's devotion to his glorious Vallian princess never flagged, his mission - and his life was perilously balanced upon the razor-edged blades of loyalty versus duty. 
One of the myriad readers writes: "During the years that I have been reading science fiction, I do not believe that I have ever come across a more entertaining, fast-moving series than your Dray Prescot of Antares.  I've read the John Carter novels, the Gorean series, the Lensman series... all of these made good reading but I believe Akers has done the finest job to date.  He has created an almost believable culture and all that goes with it."

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Previous novels in the "Havilfar Cycle" of
the saga of Dray Prescot:
MANHOUNDS OF ANTARES (UY1124 - $1.25)
ARENA OF ANTARES (UY1145 - $1.25)
FLIERS OF ANTARES (UY1165 - $1.25)
And the fabulous first novels are back in print:
TRANSIT TO SCORPIO (UY1169 - $1.25)
THE SUNS OF SCORPIO (UY1191 - $1.25)

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!

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"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

DELIA OF VALLIA

The world of Kregen revolving around the double suns of Antares holds many wonders.  There are warrior men and warrior beasts with mighty fraternities of valor and courage.  There are whispers of similar organizations among the high-born women of many lands.  But men knew little of these save the name Sisters of the Rose and that somewhere there was a secret fortress retreat where martial arts were taught that men never learned.

Now Dray Prescot has at last laid bare the story of these fighting sororities.  Here is a thrill-packed adventure of Delia of Vallia, leader of a mystic guild, and of her mission to bring justice to one who had betrayed her blood oath and her empress.
A novel of intrigue, combat, and vengeance that was to bring Delia face to face with the traitress Jilian in the hidden arena of the whip and the claw.

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PRESCOT OF ANTARES

Triple trouble always dogged Dray Prescot just when he thought he had things under control.  This time, involved with setting things right on the continent of Pandahem, the Star Lords yanked him away from his friends, and dumped him, weaponless, at the gates of the terrible temple of the Leem.

To rescue a girl sacrifice there was but the start, for next he had to help torch the temple and all the others like it, and finally take to the sea to confront the next wave of the fish-headed marauders from Kregen's Southern Hemisphere.

There's always lots more doing in Dray Prescot's adventures on the world of Antares in Scorpio, for this colorful series in the best thing of its kind since Burroughs stopped writing!

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FUGITIVE OF SCORPIO

Dray Prescot, the Earthman who had been brought across interstellar space as the tool of the mysterious Star Lords, confronted his most baffling task while a hunted and harried wanderer on the continent of Havilfar.

That task was to discover the means by which the aircraft of that continent's most advanced civilization operated.

Prescot was no scientist, for he was a fighting man from the days before the Twentieth Century.  But fulfill his task he must - or he would never return to the princess and homeland he had won.  For Prescot therefore there was but one course - with a whole continent against him, with time itself conspiring to balk him, the secrets of an unknown science must be made his!

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Previous novels
in the saga of Dray Prescot include:
1. TRANSIT TO SCORPIO
2. THE SUNS OF SCORPIO
3. WARRIOR OF SCORPIO
4. SWORDSHIPS OF SCORPIO
5. PRINCE OF SCORPIO
6. MANHOUNDS OF ANTARES
7. ARENA OF ANTARES

DRAY PRESCOT

Fame and fortune may await the winners of the life-and-death game called Jikaida, but for Dray Prescot his triumphs seemed only to bring infamy and misfortune.

An Earthman transposed to the distant world that circles the twin suns of Antares, Prescot had to find a way out of his Jikaida City exile - for his homeland needed him in its hour of danger.

But it seemed that fate now would place him in an even more terrifying game - a treasure hunt played out in the illusion-webbed catacombs of a haunted valley where desperate men came to find fortunes at the risk of their followers' lives and their own sanity.

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

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DRAY PRESCOT

When you're down there's no place to go but up.  That's the way the brave think and if there is anyone on two worlds braver than Dray Prescot he has yet to appear.

Because Prescot, who had been a seaman and soldier on distant Earth, and now, on Golden Scorpio's fabulous planet, was claimant to the fallen throne of a conquered empire, would never give up.

Single-handed, if need be, he would be a deadly threat to the enemies of Vallia.  But as he set out on a liberation mission incomparable in the history of two worlds he knew he would never be alone.  There were always the mysterious Star Lords to watch and speculate upon his fate....

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AVENGER OF SCORPIO

Never before in his fantastic career on Kregen, planet of the twin suns of Antares, had Dray Prescot been in such a desperate predicament.  A despised outcast by his friends who wore the red of the sun Zair, he had now been condemned by his old enemies whose battle color was the green of the sun Grodno.

For while among these slavers and conquerors of the green, searching for a way to turn the tide of war to his own redemption and his friends' advantage, he had personally encountered the deadly animosity of Grodno's king, had betrayed his champion, and had shattered all he had so carefully worked for.

But continue he must - for now, in addition to the enormous feat that alone would restore his honor, he had a blood vengeance to achieve that overrode everything.


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FROM DAW
Also by Alan Bert Akers:
THE TIDES OF KREGEN   (UY1247 - $1.25)
RENEGADE OF KREGEN   (UY1271 - $1.25)
ARMADA OF ANTARES   (UY1227 - $1.25)
PRINCE OF SCORPIO   (UY1251 $1.25)

DRAY PRESCOT

For too long the iron legions of the evil empress of Hamal had devastated the neighboring lands and islands of Kregen.  Under the twin suns of Antares, that planet of marvels had been made a scene of carnage, rapine, and death.

Dray Prescot, Earthman transported to Kregen, had battled her all the way - and at long last found himself nearing the showdown of his long campaign for his new homeland.

Gathering about himself old allies and former enemies, Dray prepared to challenge the empress at the very doors of her capital city.  Until he discovered that she was about to spring her secret weapon - the super-science of the mad wizard of Loh.

"Reminiscent of John Norman's GOR." - Erbania

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DRAY PRESCOT

The world Kregen circles the twin suns of Antares, far distant from the skies of Earth.  Yet Kregen is the ground on which the Earthman Dray Prescot must stand and fight for all he holds dear.  For Prescot is the unwilling battle arm of the mysterious Star Lords who contend for that planet with the powerful Savanti.

Yet Prescot's ambitions are his own, for he has inherited the remnant of a shattered empire and must fight to bring hope and freedom to all its peoples.  By his side stands his princess, Delia of the Blue Mountains, and a band of stalwart companions of many races and species.  But arrayed against him are flying armadas, armed hordes, the wizardry of a super-scientist, and, most shocking of all, the fury and steel claws of his own daughter, Dayra!

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"ALTHOUGH KREGEN HAS MANY ASPECTS OF BARSOOM, IT IS MORE REMINISCENT OF JOHN NORMAN'S GOR" - Erbania Magazine

MANHUNTERS Of SCORPIO

Dray Prescot, Earthman on the planet Kregen of Antares... was he to remain a prince of proud Vallia or just one more human victim of the hunters and manhounds of the mysterious Southern Continent?

For that was the enigmatic fate that the Star Lords had suddenly confronted him with.  They wanted someone freed from the terrified pack of human prey among which Prescot found himself.  But who it was and how it was to be done, they left to him.

In unknown Havilfar, there were other mysteries to be solved and other discoveries to be made - and Prescot knew there could be no return to his princess and his newly won homeland until he had done the bidding of his all-powerful tormenters.

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NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK

Previous novels in the saga of Dray Prescot include:
1. TRANSIT TO SCORPIO
2. THE SUNS OF SCORPIO
3. WARRIOR OF SCORPIO
4. SWORDSHIPS OF SCORPIO
5. PRINCE OF SCORPIO

MASKS OF SCORPIO

For Dray Prescot, the task of burning out the cult of the Silver Leem had been given Star Lords priority.  Although he was emperor of Vallia, still he had to work incognito on an enemy island until that task was done.

Sided by his warrior daughter, Ros the Claw, and aided by a valiant crew of piratical swashbucklers, Dray invaded the capital of the secret order only to find treachery and terror where he had thought to find treasure and triumph.

It became a battle of golden masks against silver masks - and behind each facepiece could be hiding the bony features of the Grim Reaper himself!

DRAY PRESCOT

Beneath the emerald and ruby glow of the double suns of Antares lies a marvelous and brilliant world of savagery and beauty.  The planet Kregen, where Dray Prescot, Earthman agent of the superhuman Star Lords struggles to bring peace to the world which has become his home.

But although his nemesis, the mad empress of Hamal, and her accomplice, the evil Wizard of Loh have been destroyed, Prescot finds that the strands of this enduring battle have not been tied off, for an old conspiracy has been given a new and darker impetus which leads him to the jungle continent of Pandahem, where beneath the dark and sweltering swamps lies the deadly labyrinth of the Coup Blag where Prescot clashes with a new and terrible foe in the mazes of Scorpio!

PRESCOT'S
GREATEST CHALLENGE!

Striving to save his strife-torn empire of Vallia from the Nine Unspeakable Curses, Dray Prescot has faced a plague of murderous werewolves and attack by the witch herdes.

Now he must conquer the bfoodthirsty forces of the would-be king of North Vallia, while at the same time protecting the realm from the evil witch Csitra and her sorcerous son.  Journeying to the witch's dark Maze of Coup Blag, Dray and his comrades must meet the challenge of this realm of traps and treasures, where death waits around every turn, and a wizardly battle of destruction is the price of winning free....

FOR
DELIA-OR DEATH!

Dray Prescot hod fought long and hard through perilous lands to claim the hand of the heiress of mighty Vallia.  Yet, when finally he set foot in that long-sought empire, it was not as hero or noble... it was as on unknown, a mendicant, and finally as a condemned slave.  For the combatant fates that had interfered continually with his quest on the planet of the twin suns of Antares had yet more tests for the man they had selected as their agent.  But for Dray there could be but one goal - already in sight - and he would not be turned aside any longer no matter what dangers Vallian intrigues and quasi-human mysteries might have in store for him.

This, the fifth novel of Alan Burt Akers' enthusiastically acclaimed series, is fully illustrated and contains a special bonus in the form of maps and a glossary.

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DRAY PRESCOT

Lone Earthman on the vivid and intricate world of double-sunned Antares in Scorpio, Dray Prescot had been the pawn of the unseen Star Lords who had seeded that planet with the offspring of a hundred alien races.  But at last Prescot had come in sight of the goal which he shared with these space masters - the overthrow of slavers and their evil empires.

On the island kingdom of Hyrklana, his course now seemed clear.  Overthrow its decadent queen, lead rebellion against the cruel Arena, and free the princess who was its rightful ruler.  It was a hard task, but for Dray Prescot, against whom sorcerers and swordsmen had contended, it was the only course he could follow.  Though it might this time lead to his death, there could be no turning back....

The adventures of Dray Prescot stand equal to the works of John Norman, Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs for sheer fast-paced high adventure.

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SLAVE CITY OF ANTARES

Never before in his adventurous career under the double suns of Antares had Dray Prescot been in as desperate a situation as he found himself on his second entry into the city of Magdag.  Magdag had been the scene of one of Prescot's earliest experiences on Kregen and he recalled it with loathing as a city of power-lusting slavers, of decadent worshippers of the Green Sun.  As one who had been initiated into the chivalric order of Krozairs, he despised all that that city stood for.

But now Prescot was an outcast.  Any Krozair, any follower of the Red Sun of his former friends, would slay him on sight.  For him there was only one way to recover his home, his children, his self-respect.  He would have to perform an act of valor so extreme, so fabulous, that its glory would wash away all that now stained his name.  Only by reaching to the very heart of mighty Magdag could he hope to achieve such a suicidal triumph.

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FROM DAW
Also by Alan Burt Akers:
THE TIDES OF KREGEN (UY1247 - $1.25)
ARMADA OF ANTARES (UY1227 - $1.25)
TRANSIT TO SCORPIO (UY1169 - $1.25)

PRESCOT
OF ANTARES

Somewhere in the unmapped regions of Kregen, beneath the two suns of Antares, alpha star of the Constellation Scorpio, lies the hidden city of the Savanti.  The Savanti were the ones responsible for tearing Dray Prescot away from his native Earth for their struggle against the Star Lords.

And Dray had long sought the locale of his original landing because it would help solve the mystery of his transition.  Now the time had come when the search must be completed without delay - for the father of his beloved Delia was a victim of assassins, and only the Savanti could undo the evil that could shatter all that Dray held dear in his second planetary homeland.

SAVAGE SCORPIO is the thrilling novel of a mission that would involve powerful forces far beyond all Prescot's personal desires.

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FROM DAW
BEASTS OF GOR by John Norman UJ1363 - $1.95
WELL OF SHIUAN by C. J. Cherryh UJ1371- $1.95
WHETTED BRONZE by Manning Norvil UW1364 - $1.50
THE STORM LORD by Tanith lee UJ1361 - $1.95

ALAN BURT AKERS

The brightest star in the Constellation Scorpio is the brilliant double sun Antares, around which orbits the inhabited planet called Kregen.  Kregen is an Earthlike world, but strange, far stranger, than ours.  For it is the scene of a conflict between galactic powers who utilize its many human nations and its astonishing variety of humanoid peoples as their battleground.

Dray Prescot of Earth had been a tool of those powers - but courage and ingenuity had won him a high role in the Vallian Empire and a certain independence of his own.  Thus when a mysterious monster cult began to undermine the empire and when his own beloved princess became a victim of those secret schemers, Prescot had to go into action.

SECRET SCORPIO launches a new cycle in the magnificent history of Kregen - and brings Prescot at long last into direct confrontation with the forces that had once dared make him their pawn.
Definitely the best series of its kind since Burroughs.

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- FROM DAW -
By Alan Burt Akers:
THE TIDES OF KREGEN UY1247 - $1.25
RENEGADE OF KREGEN UY1271 - $1.25
KROZAIR OF KREGEN UW1288 - $1.50

UNDER
THE SUNS OF ANTARES

Here's a special treat for everyone who loves novels of high adventure on exotic worlds in the tradition of Burroughs and Norman.  For this is such a novel, complete in itself, of Dray Prescot's fighting comrade, Seg, the finest archer of two worlds.  Seg is a wild and reckless fellow, courageous in the face of any adversity, and this is the account of his greatest challenge.

Single-handed, on an enemy island, Seg becomes knight-protector of the mysterious lady, Milsi, and by her side, beats off frightful beasts and inhuman foemen intent on blocking her path to a rightful royal inheritance.  It's action science fiction, heroic fantasy, and high romance under the twin suns of Antares in Scorpio.

STORM OVER VALLIA

Drak, Crown Prince of Vallia, Dray Prescot's son, was sore beset on three sides.  For one, he was leading an army of liberation against the usurper Alloran who had seized part of Vallia - and who was grinding Drak's troops down with blackest magic and most villainous mercenaries.

For two, he was the target of a marriage plot by an allied queen, whose forces he needed desperately.

For the third, he was in love with Silda, daughter of his father's loyal friend, Seg the Bowman.  And Silda was now in Alloran's camp, a black-leather swordswoman commanding the usurper's do-or-die Amazon guards!

Magic, mystery, treason, warfare and romance make a heady concoction - and before this adventure was over, Drak would have his fill of it all!

Come to Kregen, planet of the two suns of Antares, and join the excitement!

SLAVES OF ANTARES

Slave of the colossus builders or scourge of the Inland Sea?  Both roles awaited Dray Prescot on his return to Kregen.  Torn between two contending forces, the Star Lords and the Savanti, Prescot himself wanted only to find his beloved, the Princess Delia of the Blue Mountains.  But the powers that had drawn him across interstellar space to the world that orbited the two suns of the brightest star in the Constellation Scorpio had set him a task, the nature of which even he could not fully estimate.

Here is an adventure-packed, full-bodied novel of danger and daring on a planet that is fully the equal of Burroughs' Barsoom and Norman's Gor - and that has already established a new high for interplanetary sagas.

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Novels in the saga of Dray Prescot include:
1. TRANSIT TO SCORPIO
2. THE SUNS OF SCORPIO
3. WARRIOR OF SCORPIO
4. SWORDSHIPS OF SCORPIO
5. PRINCE OF SCORPIO
6. MANHOUNDS OF ANTARES
7. ARENA OF ANTARES
8. FLIERS OF ANTARES
9. BLADESMAN OF ANTARES

DRAY PRESCOT

The most popular game among the many peoples of Kregen, world of Antares, is one that strongly resembles chess, called Jikaida.  Jikaida is a battle of wits and war-game pieces that suited well the tension-charged atmosphere that enveloped Dray Prescot.  For reconquering Vallia was assuming the aspect of such a game - move versus countermove, horde against horde!

Then Dray Prescot found himself no longer in control of just a game - he had become a living chessman on a real-life board at the dreaded arena of Jikaida City.  There every move was accompanied by bloodshed and behind every game might hang the fate of a city, an island, or even a nation!

Dray Prescot's popular saga of life under the suns of Scorpio is cosmic adventure on the scale of Edgar Rice Burroughs and John Norman.

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THE PIRATES OF KREGEN

What does a man do when fate makes him the protector of the royal head of the and of his enemies?  If it is Dray Prescot, Earthman on Antares, he sets aside his quest to do his duty.

His quest was to reach Vallia and his princess and help her claim her throne.  His duty was to defend Vallia's ancient foe and place its rightful heir on its throne - sworn to attack Vallia.

So when the third force, the pirate fleets known as the swordships came between the two contending demands, Dray saw that only by following his own personal star could the contradiction be resolved.

In SWORDSHIPS OF SCORPIO, Alan Burt Akers reveals his command of the planetary adventure field.

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PRESCOT OF ANTARES

To finish the job of destroying the hideous cult of the Leem was just one of the problems confronting Dray Prescot, Earthman on Antares' wonder planet.  For he had also to rally all the world's forces to combat the onslaught that was on its way from the unexplored Southern Hemisphere.

While rescuing kidnapped children from the altars of sacrifice, Dray found himself fighting side by side with his own worst enemy, his renegade daughter, Ros the Claw, who had pledged his death.  Caught in the talons of fate, he would first have to unravel that vicious web or be torn asunder by monstrous adversity.

The greatest other-world adventure series since Edgar Rice Burroughs stopped writing!

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PRESCOT Of ANTARES

Of all the honors that Dray Prescot, Earthman, had won during his fabulous adventures on Kregen, planet of Antares in Scorpio, none were valued by him more than his membership in the Order of the Krozairs of Zy.

The Krozairs were the highest order of chivalry on that turbulent planet, dedicated men, warriors of stern convictions and unflinching hearts.  And Prescot had been ordained a Krozair back at the dawn of his career.

Thus when the Krozairs in their hour of need called on all their far-flung members for aid, he should have come.  But he did not.  His return had been blocked by the anger of the mysterious Star Lords.

Before Prescot could achieve redemption, he had two armies opposed to him, two warring kingdoms naming him outlaw, and only the tides of the seven moons as a weapon.

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

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The first cycle of Prescot novels is now available again!
1. TRANSIT TO SCORPIO  (UY1169 - $1.25)
2. THE SUNS OF SCORPIO (#UY1191 - $1.25)
3. WARRIOR OF SCORPIO (#UY1212 - $1.25)
4. SWORDSHIPS OF SCORPIO (#UY1231 - $1.25)
5. PRINCE OF SCORPIO (#UY1251 - $1.25)

PRESCOT
OF ANTARES

On the planet Kregen that circled the brightest star of the Constellation of the Scorpion, two forces contended for that world's destiny.  One of them, the Savanti, called in a human pawn from far-away Earth.

His name: Dray Prescot.

His role: Only the Savanti knew.

Dray Prescot confronted a fabulous world - barbaric, unmapped, peopled with both human and inhuman races.  But there were always the mysterious Star Lords to watch and check the Savanti's plans.  And it soon turned out that Dray Prescot himself had to make such decisions as would change him from a mere pawn to a bolder piece on that planetary chessboard.

Those who thrill to Burroughs' Barsoom and are enthralled by Norman's Gor will find Prescot's Kregen irresistible!

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DRAY PRESCOT

The windup of Prescot's stark adventures as a living chesspiece in the city of blood-games was to be as terrifying as the perils that had gone before.  Because now that transposed Earthman had to fight his way back to his embattled Vallian homeland across a sky fu!I of danger and a sea full of death.

And when he returned - if he could - he wouid find the combat joined, his son at doom's door, his troops up against superior odds - and a battle he must personally fight that would be two battles in two different places at the same time!

A VICTORY FOR KREGEN is a taut and gripping novel in the Burroughs and Howard tradition - one of the best in this much-praised saga of the colorful world of Kregen that circles Antares twin suns.

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THE FINAL CONFLICT!

His empire endangered by the diabolical schemes of the evil witch Csitra, Dray Prescot has been summoned by the powerful Star Lords.  Warned by the Star Lords of a dread menace approaching from the South, Dray must take on all challengers to become the Warlord of Kregen, uniting his people against the dual threat of Csitra's deadly magic, and a seemingly unstoppable invasion by the Shanks, piratical warriors from the Southlands.

But even with the Star Lords' aid, can Dray and his blade-comrades triumph over both dark sorcery and an army of sword-wielding destroyers?

IN THE HOSTILE
TERRITORIES OF KREGEN

Once again in the grip of the Star Lords of the Constellation Scorpio, Dray Prescot found himself torn from the battles of the Inner Sea for a mission in the air.  For it was now his duty to carry his bethrothed Delia by airboat to that far kingdom from whence she had come.  But the route lay across the gaunt mountains and shadowy jungles of the Hostile Territories - and there Dray was to be plunged among stranger peoples and more fantastic challenges than even his Kregen princess had known.

The saga of Dray Prescot, comparable only to those of Cabot of Gor and Carter of Barsoom, continues in this thrill-packed fully detailed adventure novel of the marvel lands of the planet Kregen of Antares.

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Dray Prescot is an Earthman, seaman and soldier, brought across four hundred light years to a planet of Antares. The Star Lords, a race advanced beyond our ken, needed him on that world called Kregen.

Now, having at last returned to his home empire, to his wife and his friends, Dray was to learn that the vengeance of his defeated enemies had launched a final assault - with nine occult curses - against Vallia and all that Dray held dear.

The first curse, the plague of murderous werewolves, took Dray by surprise.  Could his valor and courage, though tempered on the battlefields of alien suns, stand up against an unprecedented onslaught of warring witchcraft?