Dray Prescot series
First published in 1972, Transit to Scorpio is shown here with the original artwork by Tim Kirk. | |
52 volumes | |
| Author | Kenneth Bulmer |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | sword and planet, science fantasy |
| Publisher | DAW Books |
| Published | 1972 – 1997 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| No. of books | 52 |
The Dray Prescot series is a sequence of fifty-two science fiction novels and a number of associated short stories of the subgenre generally classified as sword and planet, written by British author Kenneth Bulmer under the pseudonym of Alan Burt Akers.
The sequence is made up of eleven cycles of novels, each cycle essentially forming a series within the series. Four novels and three short stories are stand-alone narratives falling outside the system of cycles. Each tale is narrated in the first person by the protagonist, Dray Prescot. To support the illusion that the fictional Prescot was the actual author, later volumes were bylined "by Dray Prescot as told to Alan Burt Akers."