Posts Tagged ‘kregen’

NEW TITLE: Intrigue of Antares

Monday, July 7th, 2008

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Intrigue of Antares by Alan Burt Akers is the rip-roaring new adventure for Dray Prescot on the planet Kregen, and is now available for the first time in the original English from all good ebookstores including Fictionwise (update – not available from Fictionwise until Monday July 21 July 28), eBooks.com, Mobipocket, eReader, and Amazon Kindle. It is the first volume of the Balintol Cycle, and volume 44 of the saga of Dray Prescot.

Here is the blurb…

Reared in the harsh conditions of Nelson’s Navy, Dray Prescot failed to find success on Earth but has succeeded in winning fortune on Kregen. He is called the Emperor of Emperors, the Emperor of Paz, but he himself regards these titles as meaningless. Paz, a vast grouping of continents and islands, is inhabited by innumerable races and nations - so why should they band together under Prescot? The Star Lords themselves have chosen him for this heavy task, for he has the yrium, that particular charisma that binds other mortals to his service. Now, in this the first volume of the Balintol Cycle, the Star Lords have dispatched him to the town of Amintin in the continent of Balintol. Under the streaming mingled lights of the Suns of Scorpio, Dray Prescot must set forth on his new adventures…

NEW TITLE: Scorpio Ablaze

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

akersscorpioablaze_thumb.gifVolume forty-one in the saga of Dray Prescot of Earth and of Kregen, by Kenneth Bulmer, writing as Alan Burt Akers, is now available (or soon will be) from all good online bookstores, including Fictionwise, eBooks.com, Cyberread and Mobipocket. Scorpio Ablaze is the fourth book of the Lohvian Cycle, and the last book that was ever published in English. Scorpio Drums is out in a couple of weeks!

The blurb…

Under the twin sun, Antares, the planet Kregen is a world of wonder and terror, of beauty and horror. Now, in the streaming mingled lights of the Suns of Scorpio, Prescot takes up the Krozair brand to save his friends who are about to be killed by the vicious Shank lord. Then he must rally the coalition of forces from Vallia, Hamel and Tsungfaril, to expel the Shanks from Tarankar. But things rarely go according to plan on Kregen…