Dray Prescot 1: Transit to Scorpio by Alan Burt Akers

Dray Prescot 1
Transit to Scorpio
by Alan Burt Akers (Kenneth Bulmer)
1972, DAW

English sailor Dray Prescot is zapped back and forth between Earth and the planet Kregan by mysterious means, where he goes through cycles of being enslaved and escaping, and rescuing and losing his beloved, the princess Delia. One of the most self-conscious of the Barsoom pastiches. We've got a an often nude Dejah Thoris stand in, an oversexed evil princess in love with a heroic swashbuckler ala Aura and Barin from Flash Gordon, and there's even a throwaway reference to Gor.

Takes a bit to get warmed up, and feels like a fix up novel of short story fragments, but some good adventure here and there. More Douglas Fairbanks than Conan.

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