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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 the Savanti know his role.
Dray Prescot confronts a fabulous world - barbaric, unmapped, peopled with both human and non-human races. But the Star Lords always watch and check the Savanti's plans. And...
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Dray Prescot is attempting to unify the subcontinent of Balintol against the overweening ambitions of local rulers, to present a united front to the predatory reivers from over the curve of the world, the dreaded Fish-heads, the Shanks. These rulers of the countries of Balintol, and the people trying to usurp them, appear to care only for their own ambitions.
Having saved the Illusionist of Winlan and preserved the Wall that retains the demon monsters...
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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 is now his mission to carry his beloved Delia by airboat to that far kingdom, Vallia, from whence she had come. But the route lay across the gaunt mountains and the shadowy jungles of the Hostile Territories -- and there Dray will be plunged among stranger peoples and more fantastic...
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Slave of the colossus builders or scourge of the Inland Sea? Both roles await Dray Prescot on his return to Kregen. Torn between two contending forces, the Star Lords and the Savanti, Prescot himself wants 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 orbit the red and green suns in the Constellation Scorpio have set him a task, the nature of which...
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His empire endangered by the diabolical schemes of the evil witch Csitra, Dray Prescot is summoned by the powerful Star Lords who warn 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.
This edition contains a glossary to the Witch...
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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 than a cunning and devious brain is needed to secure success.
Having won his princess, Delia of Delphond, Delia of the Blue Mountains, and having become the Emperor of Vallia with Delia at his side as...
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Dray Prescot, the Earthman brought across interstellar space to Kregen as the tool of the mysterious Star Lords, confronts his most baffling task while he is a hunted and harried wanderer of the continent of Havilfar. That task is to discover the means by which the aircraft of that continent's most advanced civilization operate. Prescot is no scientist, but fulfill his task he must or he will never return to the princess and homeland he has won. So,...
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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, then, he is launched into fresh adventures, but this time there is a hiatus which might easily break a man of lesser fire and spirit...
The Tides of Kregen: Of all the honours that Dray Prescot, Earthman,...
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Drak, Crown Prince of Vallia, Dray Prescot's son, is sore beset on three sides. For one, he is leading an army of liberation against the usurper Alloran who had seized part of Vallia and was grinding Drak's troops down with blackest magic and most villainous mercenaries. For two, he is the target of a marriage plot by an allied queen, whose forces he needs desperately. For the third, he is in love with Silda, daughter of his father's loyal friend,...
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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 sub-continent of Balintol against the Shanks, but the megalomaniac striving for power of various factions looks set to send Balintol up in flames.
Scourge of Antares Prescot has uncovered some of the...
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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 keep faith with their innate purpose. Kregen has its share of weaklings and the faint of heart, but their names are not writ large in the footnotes to the sagas to be found under the Suns of Scorpio. Dray...
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Somewhere in the unmapped regions of Kregen, beneath the two suns of Antares, lies the hidden city of the Savanti. The Savanti were responsible for tearing Dray Prescot away from his native Earth for their struggle against the Star Lords. Dray has long sought the locale of his original landing because it would help solve the mystery of his transition. Now the time has come for the search to be completed without delay. The father of his beloved Delia...
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The world of 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. But Prescot's ambitions are his own. He has inherited the remnant of a shattered empire and must fight to bring hope and freedom to...
14) Captive Scorpio
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Dray Prescot, Earthman of Kregen, that wonderful world circling the twin suns of Antares, has risen high in the empire of Vallia, but luck cannot always sustain him. When, at last, all the forces opposed to his lands, his princess, his emperor, and to him personally, converge, it was to produce the darkest hour of his long career. For treason struck at the court, while rebel armies marched from the backlands, the war fleets of enemy nations were aloft,...
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Dray Prescot's fighting comrade, Seg, is the finest archer in 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. On an enemy island, Seg becomes knight-protector of the mysterious lady Milsi, and by her side he beats off frightful beasts and inhuman foemen intent on blocking her path to a rightful royal inheritance.
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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 sorceries rend reason, where injustice denies light.
Dray Prescot's happiness with Delia, the Princess Majestrix of Vallia, is threatened as the notorious Wizard of Loh, Phu-si-Yantong, seeks to destroy Delia's...
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The first five books in the Saga of Dray Prescot of Earth and of Kregen are brought together in this omnibus edition. Together, they make up the Delian Cycle, in which Dray Prescot comes to terms with the alien world of Kregen. Here he tries to make sense of his situation: the Star Lords, the Savanti, the marvelous places, strange beasts and stranger people. And here he pursues his greatest love of two worlds, Delia of the Blue Mountains.
Dray Prescot's...
18) Rebel of Antares
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Lone Earthman on the vivid and intricate world of twin-sunned Antares in Scorpio, Dray Prescot has been the pawn of the unseen Star Lords who seeded that planet with the offspring of a hundred alien races. But at last Prescot has come in sight of the goal to overthrow the slavers and their evil empires that he shares with these space masters. On the island kingdom of Hyrklana his course now seems clear: overthrow its decadent queen, lead rebellion...
19) Mazes of Scorpio
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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...
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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 with each other for ascendency. 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. But he has yet to fully solve...
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