Mazes of Scorpio (Dray Prescot 27) (Daw Books No. 487)

176 pp. UE1739 code on front cover. The Dray Prescot series is a sequence of fifty-three science fiction novels and a number of associated short stories of the subgenre generally classified as sword and planet, written by 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 main 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.'