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Alan Burt Akers is a pen name of the prolific British author
Kenneth Bulmer, who died in December 2005 aged eighty-four.
Bulmer
wrote over 160 novels and countless short stories, predominantly
science fiction, both under his real name and numerous pseudonyms,
including Alan Burt Akers, Frank Brandon, Rupert Clinton, Ernest
Corley, Peter Green, Adam Hardy, Philip Kent, Bruno Krauss, Karl Maras,
Manning Norvil, Dray Prescot, Chesman Scot, Nelson Sherwood, Richard
Silver, H. Philip Stratford, and Tully Zetford. Kenneth Johns was a
collective pseudonym used for a collaboration with author John Newman.
Some of Bulmer's works were published along with the works of other
authors under "house names" (collective pseudonyms) such as Ken Blake
(for a series of tie-ins with the 1970s television programme The
Professionals), Arthur Frazier, Neil Langholm, Charles R. Pike, and
Andrew Quiller.
Bulmer
was also active in science fiction fandom, and in the 1970s he edited
nine issues of the New Writings in Science Fiction anthology series in
succession to John Carnell, who originated the series.
Mushroom
eBooks has obtained the rights from Ken Bulmer's family to publish all
52 of the Dray Prescot novels. We hope to have published them all by
the end of 2013, but it may take a little longer. We also hope to be
able to publish many more of Ken Bulmer's novels and short stories in
due course.
The Dray Prescot series (so far...) :
Paperback and hardback omnibus editions of some Alan Burt
Akers books are now available from Bladud
Books:
- The Delian Cycle (hardback and
paperback)
- The Havilfar Cycle I (hardback
and paperback)
- The Havilfar Cycle II
(hardback and paperback)
- The Krozair Cycle (hardback
and paperback)
- The Vallian Cycle
(hardback and paperback)
- The Jikaida Cycle
(hardback and paperback)
- The Spikatur Cycle
(hardback and paperback)
- The Pandahem Cycle I (hardback and paperback)
- The Pandahem Cycle II (hardback and paperback)
- The Witch War Cycle (hardback and paperback)
- The Lohvian Cycle I (hardback and paperback)
- The Lohvian Cycle II (hardback and paperback)
For more information on Alan Burt Akers, and especially the
worlds of Dray Prescot...
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