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  Into that closed bedchamber crept an insidious blue radiance. I stood straight, stony-faced, empty-handed, waiting for whatever fate would be meted out by the Star Lords.

  Even then, even then in that moment of utter horror — and especially then in that moment of utter horror — I felt my thoughts twine lovingly to Delia, to my Delia of Delphond, my Delia of the Blue Mountains. Agony awaited me, I thought, the sundering of four hundred light years from all I held dear.

  So, straight and despairing, I waited for the Star Lords’ sentence.

  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

  Notes

  [1] sus: nicht wahr? n’est-ce pas? A.B.A.

  [2] Queyd-arn-tung: No more need be said! A.B.A.

  [3] hulu: Someone who is part fool and part rascal, whose villainous schemes usually result in their own discomfiture. A.B.A.

  Copyright © 1991, 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 in German by Heyne Verlag in German in 1991.

  First English eBook edition by Savanti Press in 1995

  This Edition published in 2008 by Mushroom eBooks, an imprint of Mushroom Publishing, Bath, BA1 4EB, United Kingdom

  www.mushroom-ebooks.com

  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 1843196921