Title: Transit to Scorpio

Title: Transit to Scorpio Title Record # 4304
Author: Kenneth Bulmer
Date: 1972-12-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Dray Prescot
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: A sailor from Earth finds himself magically transported to a planet circling Antares, where he falls in love with a beautiful woman, is treated to have rapid healing and a greatly extended lifespan, joins a tribe of nomadic plainsmen, and leads city-state in war against a neighboring city-state which practices slavery, before finding himself unwillingly returned to Earth.

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Translations

Year	Title
1972	Transit to Scorpio [as by Alan Burt Akers]

Year	Language	Title
1975^ⓘTranslated by Thomas Schlück	German	Transit nach Scorpio [as by Alan Burt Akers]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Transit to Scorpio	1972-12-00	Alan Burt Akers	DAW Books (DAW Collectors #33)	0-87997-033-2 / UQ1033	$0.95^?$: US dollar	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Tim Kirk
Transit to Scorpio	1972-12-00	Alan Burt Akers	DAW Books / New American Library of Canada	UQ1033	C$0.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Tim Kirk
Transit to Scorpio	1974-11-00	Alan Burt Akers	Orbit	0-86007-802-7	£0.40^?£: UK pound	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Chris Achilleos
Transit to Scorpio	1975-04-00	Alan Burt Akers	DAW Books / New American Library of Canada	UY1169	C$1.25^?C$: Canadian dollar	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Josh Kirby
Transit to Scorpio	1975-05-00	Alan Burt Akers	DAW Books	UY1169	$1.25^?$: US dollar	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Josh Kirby
Transit nach Scorpio	1975-09-00	Alan Burt Akers	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3459)	3-453-30335-0	DM 3.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	172	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Frank Frazetta
Transit to Scorpio	1983-04-00	Alan Burt Akers	DAW Books	0-87997-820-1 / UE1820	$2.50^?$: US dollar	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Transit to Scorpio	1983-04-00	Alan Burt Akers	DAW Books / New American Library of Canada	0-87997-820-1 / UE1820	C$2.95^?C$: Canadian dollar	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Tim Kirk
Transit nach Scorpio	1986-06-00	Alan Burt Akers	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3459)	3-453-31332-1	DM 5.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	172	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Boris Vallejo
Transit nach Scorpio	1988-00-00	Alan Burt Akers	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3459)	3-453-31332-1	DM 6.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	172	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Transit nach Scorpio	1991-00-00	Alan Burt Akers	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3459)	3-453-31332-1	DM 6.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	172	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Die Scorpio-Bänder	1996-00-00	Alan Burt Akers	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #5497)	3-453-10969-4	DM 16.90^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	684	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Romas Kukalis
Transit to Scorpio	2005-11-00	Alan Burt Akers	Mushroom eBooks	1-84319-331-0	$4.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
The Delian Cycle	2007-00-00	Alan Burt Akers	Bladud Books	978-1-84319-557-3	$56.00^?$: US dollar	676	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Tim Kirk
The Delian Cycle	2007-04-03	Alan Burt Akers	Bladud Books	978-1-84319-553-5	$29.95^?$: US dollar	669	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni	Tim Kirk
The Delian Cycle	2009-08-00	Alan Burt Akers	Mushroom eBooks	978-1-84319-811-6	$15.99^?$: US dollar	669	ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni	Tim Kirk
The Delian Cycle	2009-08-00	Alan Burt Akers	Mushroom eBooks	978-1-84319-812-3	$9.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni	Tim Kirk

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Reviews

Review by Lester del Rey (1973) in Worlds of If, May-June 1973 [UK] , reprinted in:
Worlds of If, May-June 1973 (1973)
Review by Richard E. Geis (1973) in The Alien Critic, November 1973
Review by Christopher Lampton [as by Chris Lampton] (1974) in Thrust, #5 1974