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    67 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    September 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Dray Prescot

1 - Transit to Scorpio (1972)
2 - The Suns of Scorpio (1973)
3 - Warrior of Scorpio (1973)
4 - Swordships of Scorpio (1973)
5 - Prince of Scorpio (1974)
6 - Manhounds of Antares (1974)
7 - Arena of Antares (1974)
8 - Fliers of Antares (1975)
9 - Bladesman of Antares (1975)
10 - Avenger of Antares (1975)
11 - Armada of Antares (1976)
12 - The Tides of Kregen (Aug-1976)
13 - Renegade of Kregen (1976)
14 - Krozair of Kregen (1977)
15 - Secret Scorpio (1977)
16 - Savage Scorpio (1978)
17 - Captive Scorpio (1978)
18 - Golden Scorpio (1978)
19 - A Life for Kregen (Apr-1979)
20 - A Sword for Kregen (1979)
21 - A Fortune of Kregen (1979)
22 - A Victory for Kregen (Apr-1980)
23 - Beasts of Antares (Aug-1980)
24 - Rebel of Antares (Dec-1980)
25 - Legions of Antares (Aug-1981)
26 - Allies of Antares (Dec-1981)
27 - Mazes of Scorpio (Jun-1982)
28 - Delia of Vallia (Dec-1982)
29 - Fires of Scorpio (Mar-1983)
30 - Talons of Scorpio (Dec-1983)
31 - Masks of Scorpio (Mar-1984)
32 - Seg the Bowman (Sep-1984)
33 - Werewolves of Kregen (Jan-1985)
34 - Witches of Kregen (May-1985)
35 - Storm Over Valka (Aug-1985)
36 - Omens of Kregen (Dec-1985)
37 - Warlord of Antares (Apr-1988)
38 - Scorpio Reborn (Jan-2008)
39 - Scorpio Assassin (Feb-2008)
40 - Scorpio Invasion (Feb-2008)
41 - Scorpio Ablaze (Mar-2008)
42 - Scorpio Drums (Apr-2008)
43 - Scorpio Triumph (Jun-2008)
44 - Intrigue of Antares (Jul-2008)
45 - Gangs of Antares (Jul-2008)
46 - Demons of Antares (Jun-2014)
47 - Scourge of Antares (Jul-2014)
48 - Challenge of Antares (Aug-2014)
49 - Wrath of Antares (Aug-2014)
50 - Shadows over Kregen (Sep-2014)
51 - Murder on Kregen (Oct-2014)
52 - Turmoil on Kregen (Dec-2014)

Book List in Order: 67 titles

  • Transit to Scorpio

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    Dray Prescot - 1

    On the planet Kregen that circles Antares, the brightest star of the Constellation of the Scorpion, two forces contend for the world's destiny. One of them, the Savanti, called in a human pawn from far-away Earth.His name is Dray Prescot, and only th...

  • The Suns of Scorpio

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    Dray Prescot - 2

    The second book of the Dray Prescot series.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...

  • Swordships of Scorpio

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    Dray Prescot - 4

    The fourth book of the Dray Prescot series.What does a man do when fate makes him the protector of the royal head of the land of his enemies? If it is Dray Prescot, Earthman on Antares, he sets aside his quest to do his duty. His duty was to reach Va...

  • Warrior of Scorpio

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    Dray Prescot - 3

    The third book of the Dray Prescot series.Once again in the grip of the Star Lords of the Constellation Scorpio, Dray Prescot finds himself torn from the battles of the Inner Sea for a mission in the air. For it was now his mission to carry his belov...

  • Arena of Antares

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    Dray Prescot - 7

    The seventh book of the Dray Prescot series.Never a man to leave something half done, 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 ma...

  • Manhounds of Antares

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    Dray Prescot - 6

    The sixth book of the Dray Prescot series.Would Dray Prescot be able to remain a prince of proud Vallia or become just another human victim of the hunters and manhounds of the mysterious Southern Continent? For that was the enigmatic fate that the St...

  • Prince of Scorpio

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    Dray Prescot - 5

    The fifth book of the Dray Prescot series.Dray Prescot had fought long and hard through perilous lands to claim the hand of the heiress of the mighty Vallia. Yet, when finally he set foot in that long-sought empire, it was not as hero or noble... It ...

  • Avenger of Antares

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    Dray Prescot - 10

    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 d...

  • Bladesman of Antares

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    Dray Prescot - 9

    The ninth book of the Dray Prescot series.The problem with being a spy is that you have to make friends with the enemy. 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 l...



  • Fliers of Antares

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    Dray Prescot - 8

    The eighth book of the Dray Prescot series.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 he was a hunted and harried wanderer of the contine...

  • Armada of Antares

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    Dray Prescot - 11

    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 with each other for ascendency. But for Dray Prescot, Earthman an...

  • Renegade of Kregen

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    Dray Prescot - 13

    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 Pr...

  • The Tides of Kregen

    Dray Prescot - 12

    Of all the honors that Dray Prescot, Earthman, had won during his fabulous adventures on Kregen, none were valued by him more than his membership in the Order of the Krozairs of Zy.The Krozairs are the highest order of chivalry on that turbulent plan...

  • Krozair of Kregen

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    Dray Prescot - 14

    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 Zair, he had now been condemned by his old enemies whose ...

  • Secret Scorpio

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    Dray Prescot - 15

    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...

  • Captive Scorpio

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    Dray Prescot - 17

    Dray Prescot, Earthman of Kregen, that wonderful 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, an...

  • Golden Scorpio

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    Dray Prescot - 18

    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. Prescot, who had been a seaman and soldier on distant Earth, and now, on Golden Scorpi...

  • Savage Scorpio

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    Dray Prescot - 16

    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 ...

  • A Fortune of Kregen

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    Dray Prescot - 21

    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...



  • A Sword for Kregen

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    Dray Prescot - 20

    The most popular game among the many peoples of Kregen, world of Antares, is one that 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 re...

  • A Life for Kregen

    Dray Prescot - 19

    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 ...

  • A Victory for Kregen

    Dray Prescot - 22

    The ending of Prescot's stark adventures as a living chess piece 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 a...

  • Beasts of Antares

    Dray Prescot - 23

    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 fanta...

  • Rebel of Antares

    Dray Prescot - 24

    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 has come in sight ...

  • Legions of Antares

    Dray Prescot - 25

    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 ...

  • Allies of Antares

    Dray Prescot - 26

    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...

  • Mazes of Scorpio

    Dray Prescot - 27

    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 whic...

  • Delia of Vallia

    Dray Prescot - 28

    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 ...

  • Fires of Scorpio

    Dray Prescot - 29

    Triple trouble always dogged Dray Prescot, especially when he thought he had things under control. This time, involved with setting things right on the continent of Pandahem, the Star Lords yank him away from his friends, and dump him, weaponless, at...



  • Talons of Scorpio

    Dray Prescot - 30

    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 t...

  • Masks of Scorpio

    Dray Prescot - 31

    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...

  • Seg the Bowman

    Dray Prescot - 32

    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. ...

  • Werewolves of Kregen

    Dray Prescot - 33

    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, t...

  • Witches of Kregen

    Dray Prescot - 34

    When his new army was ready to march against the witch hordes, it rained frogs! It was a veritable heavy bombardment from empty skies! That's the sort of thing Dray Prescot was up against during the war of the Nine Unspeakable Curses!Dray was struggl...

  • Storm Over Valka

    Dray Prescot - 35

    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...

  • Omens of Kregen

    Dray Prescot - 36

    PRESCOT'S GREATEST CAHALLENGE! 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 hordes. Now he must conquer the bloodthirsty for...

  • Warlord of Antares

    Dray Prescot - 37

    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 th...

  • Scorpio Reborn

    Dray Prescot - 38

    Sent by the Star Lords to save a life from a fire, Dray Prescot finds himself utterly helpless in a strange land. Confused and unable to move, he is cared for by Mevancy, a woman with a strange and wonderful secret.But why have the Star Lords left hi...

  • Scorpio Assassin

    Dray Prescot - 39

    Down in the southern half of the continent of Loh, in an isolated desert land where the belief in reincarnation as a punishment is firmly accepted, Prescot and his new comrade battle intrigue and assassins and attempt to follow the desires of the Sta...



  • Scorpio Invasion

    Dray Prescot - 40

    In Scorpio Assassin, Dray Prescot defied the Star Lords by saving Queen Leone from a grizzly death, and now he must answer for his disobedience. But the Star Lords argue over him and Dray is dropped accidentally in a walled garden. He is lost. Even t...

  • Scorpio Ablaze

    Dray Prescot - 41

    Under the twin sun, Antares, the planet Kregen is a world of wonder and terror, of beauty and horror. Now, in the streaming mingled lights of the Suns of Scorpio, Prescot takes up the Krozair brand to save his friends who are about to be killed by th...

  • Scorpio Drums

    Dray Prescot - 42

    Dray Prescot has recently given up the job of being Emperor of Vallia, only to be pitchforked into the task of uniting all the varied continents and islands of Paz to resist the reiving onslaughts of the Shanks. People are beginning to call him the E...

  • Scorpio Triumph

    Dray Prescot - 43

    Reared in the harsh conditions of Nelson's navy, Dray Prescot has been transported to the exotic and barbaric, beautiful and cruel world of Kregen, four hundred light years from Earth, under the double star Antares, the twin Suns of Scorpio. Paz, the...

  • Gangs of Antares

    Dray Prescot - 45

    Lit by the ruby and emerald fires of Antares, the planet Kregen, four hundred light years away from Earth, is a world harsh yet beautiful, terrible yet alluring. There any man or woman may achieve what the heart desires if they plan and struggle and ...

  • Intrigue of Antares

    Dray Prescot - 44

    Reared in the harsh conditions of Nelson's Navy, Dray Prescot failed to find success on Earth but has succeeded in winning fortune on Kregen. He is called the Emperor of Emperors, the Emperor of Paz, but he himself regards these titles as meaningless...

  • The Witch War Cycle (The Saga Of Dray Prescot Omnibus #10)

    On the magnificent and mysterious, beautiful and terrible world of Kregen, a planet orbiting Antares four-hundred light-years from Earth, much may be achieved and much lost. Far more than merely a strong sword arm is required for victory. Far more th...

  • The Krozair Cycle (The Saga Of Dray Prescot Fourth Omnibus)

    Kregen, that grim and beautiful, marvelous and terrible world four hundred light-years away beneath the red and green fires of Antares is a world too rich in passion and action to allow a fighting man like Dray Prescot to rest for long. Once more, th...

  • The Lohvian Cycle II

    The Dray Prescot Saga, omnibus edition, containing books 41 to 43 in the epic series, and a glossary to the Lohvian Cycle.Scorpio Ablaze:Under the twin sun, Antares, the planet Kregen is a world of wonder and terror, of beauty and horror. Now, in the...

  • The Delian Cycle

    The first five books in the Saga of Dray Prescot of Earth and of Kregen are brought together in this omnibus edition. Together, these five books make up the Delian Cycle, in which Dray Prescot comes to terms with finding himself on the alien world of...



  • Demons of Antares

    Dray Prescot - 46

    Demons of Antares is the long-awaited book forty-six of the saga of Dray Prescot.Dray Prescot is on the subcontinent of Balintol where he has the task of uniting the disparate countries so that all Paz can defend itself against the predatory, fish-he...

  • The Lohvian Cycle I

    The Dray Prescot Saga, omnibus edition, containing books 38 to 40 in the epic series.Scorpio Reborn:Sent by the Star Lords to save a life from a fire, Dray Prescot finds himself utterly helpless in a strange land. Confused and unable to move, he is c...

  • Scourge of Antares

    Dray Prescot - 47

    If you are prepared to hurl yourself into adventure, to face peril with a brave heart, to risk all, then the marvelous world of Kregen offers you everything you have ever dreamed.For Dray Prescot the challenges are enormous. His task is to unite the ...

  • Challenge of Antares

    Dray Prescot - 48

    Volume forty-eight of the epic saga of Dray Prescot and the fifth book of the Balintol Cycle.Born in 1775, Dray Prescot joined the Royal Navy as a boy when his father died from the sting of a scorpion, and his mother followed soon after. The life in ...

  • Wrath of Antares

    Dray Prescot - 49

    Volume forty-nine of the epic saga of Dray Prescot and the last book of the Balintol Cycle.Dray Prescot is attempting to unify the sub-continent of Balintol against the overweening ambitions of local rulers, so that a united front can be presented to...

  • Shadows over Kregen

    Dray Prescot - 50

    Volume fifty in the saga of Dray Prescot of Earth and of Kregen - a standalone novel in the Spectre Cycle.Dray Prescot has been chosen by the Star Lords to bring all the lands of Paz together, as the so-called Emperor of All Paz. They must resist the...

  • Murder on Kregen

    Dray Prescot - 51

    A new page turns in the unruly life of Dray Prescot, and all his strengths and inner resources will be required to confront fresh problems and perils. The Star Lords, furthering their mysterious ends, demand that he unite all the continents and islan...

  • Turmoil on Kregen

    Dray Prescot - 52

    The undead monster called the Spectre has been destroyed. Princess Didi's fine new city of Gafarden no longer suffers under the threat of the animated corpse. Didi herself lies seriously injured in Zandikar in the Eye of the World, lovingly tended by...

  • The Havilfar Cycle I

    Together, the three books in this volume make up the first part of the Havilfar Cycle of the Saga of Dray Prescot of Earth and of Kregen.Dray Prescot is launched headlong into a brand-new series of adventures upon the planet of Kregen, that marvelous...

  • The Havilfar Cycle II

    In the first Havilfar Cycle omnibus, Dray Prescot was launched headlong into a brand-new series of adventures upon the planet of Kregen, that marvelous and beautiful, mystical and terrible world four hundred light-years away beneath the Suns of Scorp...

  • The Jikaida Cycle

    Four hundred light years from Earth, Kregen is a marvelous world, peopled by wonderful beings, filled with light and clamor and furor of life lived to the hilt. But Kregen has its darker side, where horror and terror bind innocent people, where sorce...

  • The Pandahem Cycle I

    Four hundred light years from Earth, Kregen is a marvelous world, peopled by wonderful beings, filled with the light and clamor and furor of life lived to the hilt. But Kregen has its darker side, where horror and terror bind innocent people, where s...

  • The Pandahem Cycle II

    Four hundred light years from Earth, Kregen is a marvelous world, peopled by wonderful beings, filled with the light and clamor and furor of life lived to the hilt. But Kregen has its darker side, where horror and terror bind innocent people, where s...

  • The Spikatur Cycle

    Four hundred light years from Earth, Kregen is a marvelous world, peopled by wonderful beings, filled with light and clamor and furor of life lived to the hilt. But Kregen has its darker side, where horror and terror bind innocent people, where sorce...

  • The Vallian Cycle

    Four hundred light years from Earth, Kregen is a marvelous world, peopled by wonderful beings, filled with light and clamor and furor of life lived to the hilt. But Kregen has its darker side, where horror and terror bind innocent people, where sorce...

  • The Balintol Cycle I [The Thirteenth Dray Prescot Omnibus]

    Dray Prescot begins an entirely new phase of his adventures on Kregen, that magnificent and terrible world four hundred light years from Earth. Reared in the harsh conditions of Nelson's Navy, Dray Prescot failed to find success on Earth but has succ...

  • The Balintol Cycle II [The Fourteenth Dray Prescot Omnibus}

    If you are prepared to hurl yourself into adventure, to face peril with a brave heart, to risk all, then the marvelous world of Kregen offers you everything you have ever dreamed. For Dray Prescot the challenges are enormous. His task is to unite the...

  • The Spectre Cycle [The Fifteenth Dray Prescot Omnibus]

    Dray Prescot has been chosen by the Star Lords to be the so-called Emperor of All Paz. Together, the countries of Paz must resist the deadly Shanks who raid from over the curve of the world. Delia and Dray Prescot have abdicated the throne of Vallia ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alan Burt Akers has published 67 books.

Alan Burt Akers does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Spectre Cycle [The Fifteenth Dray Prescot Omnibus], was published in September 2015.

The first book by Alan Burt Akers, Transit to Scorpio, was published in January 1972.

Yes. Alan Burt Akers has 1 series.
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