Alan Burt Akers

Alan Burt Akers is a pen name of the British writer Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1921-2005), a prolific science fiction author who published under many pseudonyms. As Akers he wrote the Dray Prescot series, a long sword-and-planet sequence set on the world of Kregen under the star Antares. The first volumes appeared from DAW Books in the 1970s and later ones were first published in German. Later volumes were credited to the series' narrator, Dray Prescot.