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Authors: Alan Burt Akers

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Well, one thing I knew. I intended to have a few hard words with the Star Lords this time when they thumped me down before them. Superhuman entities or no damned superhuman entities — very hard words, by Zair!

Notes

[1]
Kov: duke. Kovneva: duchess. Strom: count. Stromni: countess. Kapt: general of an army.
A.B.A.

[2]
db’s: dwaburs per bur. A dwabur is five miles and a bur is forty minutes.
A.B.A.

[3]
Here Prescot gives the composition of the Eighth and Ninth Armies together with long lists of names.
A.B.A.

[4]
Dustrectium: firepower as delivered by bows, slings and engines.

[5]
Prescot goes on with the guest list. The only sensible thing for me to do is merely to list the names without disrespect to their importance in Prescot and Delia’s lives. Nedfar, Emperor of Hamal. Kytun Kholin Dom. Ortyg Fellin Coper and his wife Sinkie. Prince Vardon Wanek and his wife Natema and family. Gloag. Hap Loder and an uproarious ferocious band of Clansmen. Pompino the Iarvin — without his wife — and the rascally crew of Cap’n Murkizon, who, I am happy to say, called frequently on his Divine Lady of Belschutz. King Filbarrka and Queen Zenobya, a splendid pair of comrades. Pando and Tilda were invited, and arrived to wonder — but that is another story. There were many friends Drak had made in his own adventures. And the same went for Silda, notably Lon the Knees. Unmok the Nets. Duhrra of the Days. Just about all the nobility of Vallia attended, as was proper. All the people of the household and those close to us. The list was apparently endless.
A.B.A.

[6]
For a description of Prescot’s marriage to Delia, see Dray Prescot #6,
Manhounds of Antares
.
A.B.A.

[7]
See:
A Fortune for Kregen,
Dray Prescot #21.
A.B.A.

About the author

Alan Burt Akers was a pen name of the prolific British author Kenneth Bulmer, who died in December 2005 aged eighty-four.

Bulmer wrote over 160 novels and countless short stories, predominantly science fiction, both under his real name and numerous pseudonyms, including Alan Burt Akers, Frank Brandon, Rupert Clinton, Ernest Corley, Peter Green, Adam Hardy, Philip Kent, Bruno Krauss, Karl Maras, Manning Norvil, Chesman Scot, Nelson Sherwood, Richard Silver, H. Philip Stratford, and Tully Zetford. Kenneth Johns was a collective pseudonym used for a collaboration with author John Newman. Some of Bulmer’s works were published along with the works of other authors under "house names" (collective pseudonyms) such as Ken Blake (for a series of tie-ins with the 1970s television programme The Professionals), Arthur Frazier, Neil Langholm, Charles R. Pike, and Andrew Quiller.

Bulmer was also active in science fiction fandom, and in the 1970s he edited nine issues of the New Writings in Science Fiction anthology series in succession to John Carnell, who originated the series.

More details about the author, and current links to other sources of information, can be found at
www.mushroom-ebooks.com, and at wikipedia.org.

The Dray Prescot Series

The Delian Cycle:

1. Transit to Scorpio

2. The Suns of Scorpio

3. Warrior of Scorpio

4. Swordships of Scorpio

5. Prince of Scorpio

Havilfar Cycle:

6. Manhounds of Antares

7. Arena of Antares

8. Fliers of Antares

9. Bladesman of Antares

10. Avenger of Antares

11. Armada of Antares

The Krozair Cycle:

12. The Tides of Kregen

13. Renegade of Kregen

14. Krozair of Kregen

Vallian cycle:

15. Secret Scorpio

16. Savage Scorpio

17. Captive Scorpio

18. Golden Scorpio

Jikaida cycle:

19. A Life for Kregen

20. A Sword for Kregen

21. A Fortune for Kregen

22. A Victory for Kregen

Spikatur cycle:

23. Beasts of Antares

24. Rebel of Antares

25. Legions of Antares

26. Allies of Antares

Pandahem cycle:

27. Mazes of Scorpio

28. Delia of Vallia

29. Fires of Scorpio

30. Talons of Scorpio

31. Masks of Scorpio

32. Seg the Bowman

Witch War cycle:

33. Werewolves of Kregen

34. Witches of Kregen

35. Storm over Vallia

36. Omens of Kregen

37. Warlord of Antares

Lohvian cycle:

38. Scorpio Reborn

39. Scorpio Assassin

40. Scorpio Invasion

41. Scorpio Ablaze

42. Scorpio Drums

43. Scorpio Triumph

Balintol cycle:

44. Intrigue of Antares

45. Gangs of Antares

46. Demons of Antares

47. Scourge of Antares

48. Challenge of Antares

49. Wrath of Antares

50. Shadows over Kregen

Phantom cycle:

51. Murder on Kregen

52. Turmoil on Kregen

Copyright © 1985, Kenneth Bulmer

Alan Burt Akers has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, to be identified as the Author of this work.

First published by Daw Books, Inc. in 1985.

This Edition published in 2008 by Mushroom eBooks, an imprint of Mushroom Publishing, Bath, BA1 4EB, United Kingdom
www.mushroom-ebooks.com

Originally published as "by Dray Prescot, as told to Alan Burt Akers".

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher.

ISBN 1843196824

Contents

A Note on Dray Prescot

1 – Concerning the crime of old Hack ‘n’ Slay

2 – The Empress and Emperor of Vallia Dance

3 – An aerial skirmish

4 – Ambush in the clouds

5 – I inspect the zorca lines

6 – A dagger in the night

7 – The Battle of Bengarl’s Blight

8 – Drak and Silda

9 – Armada against Csitra

10 – Nath the Impenitent

11 – Of two kovs at The Dragon’s Roost

12 – Over the Snarly Hills

13 – Loriman the Hunter listens to me

14 – Into the Coup Blag

15 – Of the cost of discovery

16 – “I never was fond of skelebones!”

17 – Concerning a toad’s supper

18 – Deb-Lu’s boiling water trick

19 – Kov Hurngal’s treachery isrepaid

20 – The Scorpion of the Star Lords

Notes

About the author

The Dray Prescot Series

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