The Delian Cycle

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The Delian Cycle: 5 Volumes
Named after Delia of the Blue Mountain, which Prescot meets while training with the Savanti, it relates to the five volume saga of his tribulations to find his loved one.
1.Transit to Scorpio, 1972, illus. by Tim Kirk	2.The Suns of Scorpio, 1973, illus. by Tim Kirk	3.Warrior of Scorpio, 1973, illus. by Tim Kirk	4.Swordship of Scorpio, 1973, illus. by Tim Kirk	5.Prince of Scorpio, 1974, illus. by Jack Gaughan

1. Transit to Scorpio, 1972, illus. by Tim Kirk

   On the planet Kregen that circles the brightest star of the Constellation of the Scorpion, two forces contended for that world's destiy. One of them, the Savanti, called in a human pawn from far-away Earth. His name: Dray Prescot. His role: Only the Savanti knew.

   Dray Prescot confronted a fabulous world - barbaric, unmapped, peopled with both human and inhuman races. But there were always the mysterious Star Lords to watch and check the Savanti's plans. And it soon turned out that Dray Prescot himself had to make such decisions as would change him from a mere pawn to a bolder piece on that planetary chessboard.

   Those who thrill to Burrough's Barsoom and are enthralled by Norman's Gor will find Prescot's Kregen irrisistible!

2. The Suns of Scorpio, 1973, illus. by Tim Kirk

   Slave of the Colossus Builders or Scourge of the Inland sea?

   Both roles awaited Dray Prescott on his return to Kregen. Torn between two contending forces, the Star Lords and the Savanti, Prescot himself wanted only to find his beloved, the Princess Delia of the Blue Mountains. But the powers that had drawn him across interstellar space [...] had set him a task, the nature of which he could not fully estimate...

3. Warrior of Scorpio, 1973, illus. by Tim Kirk

   Once again in the grip of the Star Lords [...], Dray Prescot found himself torn from the battles of the Inner Sea for a mission in the air. For it was now his duty to carry his betrothed Delia by airboat to that far kingdom from whence she had come. But the route lay across the gaunt mountains and shadowy jungles of the Hostile Territories - and there Dray was to be plunged among stranger people and more fantastic challenges than even his Kregen princess had known.

4. Swordship of Scorpio, 1973, illus. by Tim Kirk

   What does a man do when fate makes him the protector of the royal head of his enemies? If it is Dray Prescot, Earthman of Antares, he sets aside his quest to do his duty. His quest was to reach Vallia and his princess. His duty was to defend Vallia's ancient foe and place its rightful heir on its throne - sworn to attack Vallia.

   So when the third force, the pirate fleets known as the swordships came between the two contending demands, Dray saw that only by following his own personal star could that contradiction be resolved.

5. Prince of Scorpio, 1974, illus. by Jack Gaughan

   Dray Prescot had fought long and hard to claim the hand of the heiress of mighty Vallia. Yet, when finally he set foot in that long-sought empire, it was not as a hero but as an unknown.

   For the combatant fates that had interfered continually with his quest on [Kregen] had yet more tests for the man they had abducted from Earth as their agent.

   But for Dray there could be but one goal and he would no longer be turned aside no matter what intrigues and quasi-human mysteries might be waiting for him.

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