Anyone ever read any Dray Prescott books?

[Desdichado]

In my continuing efforts to expand my "planetary romance" repertoire beyond Edgar Rice Burroughs, I've discovered this author named Kenneth Bulmer (who also wrote under the pseudonym of Alan Burt Akers for a while) who has this series about some guy named Dray Prescott.

There are thirty seven books in this series, which is absolutely astounding. The first one is called Transit to Scorpio. But I've never read any of them. Used copies look like their relatively cheap and common on Abebooks and whatnot, at least of the first few books.

Anyone read these? Are they a long, continuous narrative? Or is each book self-contained? Or do they come in multi-volume chunks? How good are they?

 

[JoeGKushner]

I've read a few of 'em.

Not bad as far as sword & sorcery goes.

I've managed to pick up mine at book fairs and stuff along those lines.

The ones I've read have been first person and end and finish with the same book.

I'm surprised that it hasn't made it into some type of omnibus edition.

Maybe it's time to bug the science fiction book club. They're actually pretty good at listening to their fans.

 

[Desdichado]

I found an obscure website about the books; it looks like, although more or less self-contained, they do move in broad, multi-book arcs. The first arc is the the first five books, Transit to Scorpio, Suns of Scorpio, Warrior of Scorpio, Swordships of Scorpio and finally Prince of Scorpio.

Anyway, thanks for the tip, Joe. These look interesting.