Kenneth Bulmer Books in Order

After a devastating war, humanity's survivors accept rule by advanced cybernetic machines. Their ordered society becomes an authoritarian prison, and resistance grows against the controllers that were meant to protect the remaining population from destruction.

Brent travels by matter transmitter for a holiday on Luralye and becomes caught in a struggle over the new technology. Powerful spaceship companies want to stop it, turning his arrival into an encounter with galactic interests.

Jeremy Dodge knows that underwater farming keeps Earth's growing population fed. Kidnapped into the depths, he discovers a ruthless monopoly controlled by water-breathing humans and must look beyond his own escape to the danger facing everyone above.

Earth has endured centuries of alien domination while an underground movement prepares for liberation. Intelligence agent Rupert Clinton carries a vital secret somewhere in his subconscious, but accessing it may determine whether the resistance can succeed.

Richard Kirby enjoys a privileged life until his undercover-agent brother is murdered. Investigating the forbidden planets where Alec worked puts Kirby in conflict with authorities protecting a secret that threatens far more than his own safety.

Loftus Tait and his Terran Survey Corps crew explore distant worlds in a fragile craft without the protection of a large base ship. Their belief in humanity's future among the stars is tested by the hazards of their work.

Earth uses robot messiahs to prepare alien worlds for conquest by teaching faith in humanity's arrival. Troubleshooter Roy Inglis suspects rival missionaries may spread an opposing creed, and his own loyalties could become a weapon against Earth.

As an underwater civilization faces hostile invaders and a descending sky, Keston Ochiltree must choose between military duty and forbidden exploration. A professor’s expedition beyond the silver boundary may offer humanity a future or hasten its destruction.

Posing as an interstellar salesman, John Carter enters a cluster where exposure would mean execution. Gaining access to its forbidden central planet leaves him caught between powerful military rulers and a still greater threat from space.

Julian's life changes after his sister dies and he is recruited into an off-world construction crew. His unusual perceptions become valuable to a new companion as they consider escaping work imposed by a powerful empire.

Professor Cheslin Randolph needs funding to complete experiments that could create life from chemicals. Rejected by the government, he turns his intelligence toward robbing a starship, using trained viruses to help carry out the crime.

Stead becomes a forager in Archon, an underground kingdom attacked by creatures called Demons. Discovering the truth about the outside world is only part of his task, as the isolated Controllers resist what he learns.

Carson flees a repressive authority and becomes host to an ancient alien intelligence. Their uneasy partnership joins his search for revenge with the alien's search for a lost companion, drawing him deeper into galactic conflict.

Humanity expands through matter transmitters until an alien civilization resists its advance. When transported humans begin arriving without the will to fight, a military conflict becomes a mystery about the technology on which Earth's expansion depends.

Crane investigates disappearances linked to strange beings from another world. His search for the secret of the Map Country draws him toward an unexplored realm, where the mystery threatens more than the missing people he hopes to find.

A machine appears to fulfill an old human ambition by offering a man anything he could want. Yet the same device may give him nothing, turning the promise of unlimited possibility into an uncertain encounter with its consequences.

Commander Stephen Strang helps strengthen Earth's domain by moving distant planets into orbit around the Sun. Discovering a dangerous secret at the heart of Vesta challenges his confidence that humanity has secured itself against every threat.

An ancient civilization sacrificed itself to imprison a monster from the stars. Seven thousand years later, the barriers begin to fail, forcing a small group to confront a danger modern humanity has forgotten.

Aviation journalist Robert Prestin meets a woman on a flight to Rome, then loses her somewhere in midair. Her disappearance draws him into other dimensions, strange powers, and a world where he may be the key.

Jack Waley crashes on Kerim, a ruined world where wishes once became reality. Surviving there requires more than another lucky escape, as he must find a way to change the future of an entire dying society.

Detective Robin Carver identifies murderers by connecting with victims' dying brains and experiencing their last moments. A sudden wave of killings pushes him toward the limits of a job that makes each death an intensely personal experience.

Fezius helps two princesses flee a powerful ruler who wants to force one into marriage. Their escape draws him through portals to other worlds, where unfamiliar technology and competing powers complicate his effort to protect them.

Rival sorcerers' spells freeze Ferranoz in the middle of destruction, leaving its inhabitants unable to move. Outside the city, Prince Kandar must find forbidden books containing the incantation that might free his people from their suspended fate.

A princess sends Big Bill Jarrett to find a missing prince after other adventurers have failed. Refusal would be fatal, but accepting means undertaking a journey whose dangers have already destroyed those sent before him.

Scobie Redfern thinks an unexpected visitor's talk of parallel worlds is a joke until pursuing monsters arrive. Fleeing through portals, he hopes the Wizards of Senchuria can help him survive and find his way back home.

Humanity faces extermination by a hostile alien race and develops an unusual weapon to resist it. The brains of dead humans are placed in mechanical bodies, creating soldiers whose existence tests the boundaries between survival and death.

Felix Vereker troubleshoots for galactic antique dealers and searches distant worlds for buried treasures. Political assassinations and attempts on his own life interrupt the work, drawing him into a struggle to maintain control over his identity.

A migration of gods threatens to transform Gamelon and overturn its existing order. Twins Torr and Tara must use his magical sword and her witchcraft to protect the people and prepare them for what comes next.

Ferdie Foxlee's electronic creation collapses at a crucial moment, sending him into a panic. His technical skills make him valuable despite the failure, and fleeing his troubles brings him directly into the reach of the criminal underworld.

The Contessa rules Irunium through force and needs a new engineer to keep her mines producing gems. A trapped Earth engineer becomes a target for recruitment into an operation whose valuable workers remain dangerously expendable.

In a future society of material abundance, privileged Uppers maintain their power over workers through a hallucinogenic drug. Beneath the promise of plenty, inequality and chemical control shape a world of exploitation, violence, and unstable pleasures.

Cy Yancey dreams of hunting in Africa but accidentally travels with fugitives through other dimensions. Stranded on Jundagai, where hunting governs life, he must search for a route back to Earth before becoming another victim.

An immensely powerful computer takes control of a metropolis while two people begin a love affair. Their private relationship becomes bound to the fate of the city, with the possibility of either rescuing or destroying their world.

Matthew Wade abandons his powerful ruling caste and hides among the galaxy's migrant workers. Pursued by those who want him back, he must choose between preserving his disguise and preventing the destruction of an entire planet.

The mobile cities of Parsloe's Planet follow radiation sources essential to their inhabitants' survival. As those sources fail, renegade Douglas Marsden arrives in a world facing madness and death, where its future may depend on an outcast.

Roy Tulley is kidnapped into another dimension where descendants of an Egyptian civilization fight with chariots. His knowledge of technology and a new attachment draw him into their struggles while he looks for a place in the unfamiliar world.

Dray Prescot is taken from Earth to Kregen by powerful beings pursuing their own plans. Amid unfamiliar peoples and rival forces, he must decide whether to remain a pawn or take a more independent role.

Saxon noble Edric and his father are shipwrecked in Normandy and find shelter with a Norman family. A friendship with Simon du Lac grows amid uncertain loyalties, setting the stage for conflict as tensions between their peoples deepen.

Dray Prescot's wish to reach Princess Delia conflicts with his duty to protect the ruler of Vallia's enemies. Pirate swordships add another danger, forcing him to navigate competing loyalties on his journey across Kregen.

Recovering after Stamford Bridge, Edric faces a new danger as Norman forces prepare to invade England. His former friend Simon du Lac joins them with revenge in mind, bringing a personal feud into the wider struggle for the crown.

Dray Prescot returns to Kregen wanting to find Princess Delia, but the Star Lords and Savanti have other plans. Slavery and conflict around the Inland Sea stand between his personal search and the mysterious task imposed on him.

The Star Lords send Dray Prescot on a mission to carry Princess Delia home by airboat. Crossing Kregen's hostile mountains and jungles brings unfamiliar peoples and dangers that stand between the travelers and the kingdom of Vallia.

Dray Prescot's mission on Havilfar remains unfinished when he faces captivity in a queen's arena. Forced into gladiatorial combat against fighters and monsters, he must survive while the Star Lords wait for him to resume their work.

The Star Lords place Dray Prescot among human captives hunted by manhounds on Kregen's southern continent. He must rescue someone from the terrified group, but first he has to discover whom his mysterious masters intend him to save.

Dray Prescot finally reaches Vallia, hoping to claim a future with Princess Delia. Instead of receiving a hero's welcome, he becomes an unknown outsider and condemned slave, facing political intrigues that threaten the goal he has pursued across Kregen.

Pursued by the enhanced men whose ambitions he opposed, Ryder Hook seeks refuge in an orbiting city. Its attractive society appears to offer safety, but beneath that surface lies another danger that complicates his attempt to escape.

Ryder Hook uncovers a plan by physically enhanced, telepathic men to seize power. Facing opponents with strength and stamina beyond ordinary humans, he discovers that stopping their conspiracy may require him to become one of them.

A starship breakdown forces Ryder Hook onto a planet where rescued passengers risk being forced into indentured labor. Evading the authorities with a fellow traveler, he must also escape the enhanced men who are pursuing him.

Dray Prescot heads home with information about Vallia's enemies, but the Star Lords have not released him from their mission. Sea raiders, an enemy swordsman, and an underground cult interrupt the journey and threaten his hopes of reunion.

Investigating the aircraft-making empire of Hamal, Dray Prescot builds friendships among the people he is spying on. Protecting its queen pulls him between personal loyalty and his duty to Vallia, placing both his mission and survival at risk.

Captain Sebastian Shark seeks his fortune in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, where pirates and Spanish authorities make every voyage dangerous. Battles across the Spanish Main test a buccaneer determined to keep his ship, freedom, and chance of wealth.

The Star Lords require Dray Prescot to discover how Havilfar's advanced aircraft work. Hunted across the continent and lacking scientific expertise, he must uncover the secret before he can return to Princess Delia and his adopted home.

Captain Shark pursues the vanished treasure of Henry Morgan, infiltrating an enemy stronghold to obtain a map. His search becomes a race against Spanish rivals, with a remote island promising either a fortune or another deadly confrontation.

A band of Vikings stranded in America struggles to make its way home. Surviving the return journey offers no guarantee of peace, as the men discover that the world they left behind has changed in troubling ways.

Viking raider Erik Ragnarsson takes a Saxon woman aboard his longship, unaware of her importance. Her presence provokes rivalry with Morgana, the Celtic princess who loves him, turning the spoils of a coastal raid into a dangerous personal conflict.

Ryder Hook travels to a remote world hoping to make his fortune. His old enemies, the Boosted Men, continue their pursuit, forcing him to contend with their vendetta even as he tries to build a different future.

Armies from Havilfar move against Vallia, bringing war to Dray Prescot's adopted homeland. Defending the empire requires him to solve the secrets of the enemy's air fleets as the competing peoples of Kregen enter a struggle for survival.

Outcast from the Krozairs, Dray Prescot returns to the slaving city of Magdag, where even former allies may kill him. To recover his standing and return to his family, he must attempt a dangerous act against the city's power.

Dray Prescot cannot answer the Krozairs' call for help because the Star Lords block his return from Earth. Seeking redemption brings him into conflict with armies and kingdoms, with the tides of Kregen's seven moons offering an unexpected resource.

Erik Ravenhair returns to the New World and finds his settlement gone. His search for its people, including his newborn child, brings him into conflict with Irish pirates and hostile local forces that threaten his family's future.

In a prehistoric Mediterranean landscape, Odan is born to a mortal woman and a celestial visitor worshipped as a god. His struggle to claim that inheritance unfolds among early cities shaped by conflict and the presence of sky-traveling beings.

Enslaved at the oars of a Magdagian galley, Dray Prescot struggles to regain his freedom and standing. Reunited with fellow prisoners, he faces a widening conflict around the Inland Sea while trying to return to those he loves.

A mysterious monster cult undermines the Vallian Empire and draws Princess Delia into its schemes. Dray Prescot must confront the hidden forces behind the threat, challenging powers that have previously treated him as their instrument on Kregen.

Treason at court, rebel armies, and enemy fleets converge against Vallia. Dray Prescot faces a scientist's destructive schemes while defending his family and homeland, with his own warrior daughter Dayra fighting among the forces opposed to him.

With Vallia conquered, Dray Prescot claims its fallen throne and begins a mission to liberate the empire. He must confront the enemies occupying his adopted homeland while seeking allies capable of turning resistance into a struggle for recovery.

Dray Prescot searches Kregen's unmapped regions for the hidden city of the Savanti. An attack on Delia's father makes the search urgent, forcing him toward the beings who first brought him from Earth and their conflict with the Star Lords.

In the winter of 1940, Baldur Wolz takes a U-boat into a Norwegian fjord on orders from Hitler. Landing a civilian on the isolated coast exposes his crew to enemy action and unsettling dangers within their own vessel.

After Dunkirk, German U-boats attack the Atlantic shipping sustaining Britain. Baldur Wolz commands U-55 with an ambition to outdo every rival, driving his crew into a campaign where the pursuit of victories risks their own destruction.

On its first deep-sea mission in 1940, German submarine U-42 stalks a British destroyer across the Atlantic. Baldur Wolz and his fellow crewmen face a contest that tests their nerve inside a vessel that offers little escape from danger.

Exiled in Jikaida City, Dray Prescot needs to return to his endangered homeland. Instead he enters a treasure hunt through a haunted valley's illusion-filled catacombs, where the promise of wealth threatens the lives and sanity of those who follow.

Dray Prescot inherits the remains of a shattered empire and tries to restore freedom to its peoples. With Delia and companions beside him, he faces enemy fleets, armies, and a scientist's schemes, while his daughter Dayra stands among his opponents.

Dray Prescot's struggle to reconquer Vallia becomes a deadly version of the chesslike game Jikaida. In Jikaida City's arena, he is forced to serve as a living piece, with each move risking bloodshed and consequences beyond the board.

Dray Prescot must fight his way home from Jikaida City across hostile skies and seas. Vallia's defenders face superior forces and his son is in danger, making his return essential to battles that demand his presence in different places.

Dray Prescot rallies Vallia's warriors against the enemies surrounding them, then sets out alone to rescue three old friends from slavery. The journey takes him into a distant land where dangerous creatures compound the risks of his mission.

Three cases adapted from The Professionals follow CI5 agents Bodie and Doyle through a bombing, a city controlled by an authoritarian police chief, and an escort assignment targeted by assassins. Each tests their ability to protect people under pressure.

Raised among barbarians, Odan claims the throne of Eresh as the son of its queen and the sky-man worshipped as a god. Wizards and mysterious sky riders oppose him as he fights for his princess and his inheritance.

On the island kingdom of Hyrklana, Dray Prescot sets out to overthrow a tyrannical queen and free the princess with the rightful claim to rule. Leading rebellion against the cruel Arena brings him into conflict with swordsmen and sorcerers.

In spring 1941, U-boat commander Baldur Wolz prepares to attack Allied convoys as Germany intensifies its campaign to isolate Britain. A fatal accident leaves him adrift in the Atlantic, fighting to survive amid the submarine war.

After a devastating war ends on Kregen, Dray Prescot confronts the Star Lords again. He discovers that the peace he helped secure is threatened by a major invasion already approaching from another hemisphere, forcing him toward a new struggle.

Dray Prescot gathers old allies and former enemies to challenge Empress Thyliss at her capital after her armies devastate Kregen. Their campaign faces a new danger when she prepares to unleash the technological powers of the mad Wizard of Loh.

Baldur Wolz commands U-55 in the Mediterranean, attacking shipping in support of Rommel's campaign. Engine trouble leaves his submarine vulnerable just as a British destroyer closes in, trapping the crew in a struggle to escape destruction.

Delia of Vallia, leader of the Sisters of the Rose, pursues Jilian for betraying her oath and empress. Her search for justice leads through intrigue and combat toward a confrontation in a hidden arena on Kregen.

An old conspiracy draws Dray Prescot to the jungle continent of Pandahem despite the defeat of his former enemies. Beneath its swamps, the labyrinth of Coup Blag conceals a new opponent threatening his efforts to bring peace to Kregen.

U-boat veteran Baldur Wolz is chosen to test the Hecht against a British submarine base on the North African coast. As he approaches Barca, an unseen trap threatens to turn his mission into a fight for survival.

The Star Lords abandon Dray Prescot without weapons outside the temple of the Leem. Rescuing a sacrificial victim draws him into a campaign against the cult's temples while fish-headed raiders bring another threat from Kregen's Southern Hemisphere.

Dray Prescot must finish destroying the Leem cult while preparing Kregen's forces for an invasion from the south. Rescuing kidnapped children forces him to fight alongside his estranged daughter Ros the Claw, who has sworn to kill him.

Returning from war, Harry Blakey discovers that a childhood memory of a room leading to another world is real. He joins a commando corps opposing interdimensional warfare and confronts the Diamond Contessa, whose monstrous armies have plundered other Earths.

Ordered to destroy the Silver Leem cult, Dray Prescot works undercover on an enemy island despite being emperor of Vallia. With his daughter Ros and a band of pirates, he enters the order's capital and encounters treachery behind its masks.

Seg, Dray Prescot's archer companion, becomes protector of the mysterious Milsi on an enemy island. Defending her claim to a royal inheritance pits him against dangerous creatures and opponents determined to prevent her from reaching her rightful position.

Crown Prince Drak leads an army against the usurper Alloran while an allied queen pressures him into marriage. His love for Silda complicates the campaign when he discovers she commands guards fighting for the enemy.

Dray Prescot battles a would-be king of North Vallia while defending his empire against the witch Csitra and her son. Entering her Maze of Coup Blag with his companions exposes them to traps and a deadly contest of sorcery.

Dray Prescot returns to his wife, friends and empire only to discover that defeated enemies have unleashed nine occult curses against Vallia. A plague of murderous werewolves catches him unprepared, beginning a struggle against threats his military experience cannot easily answer.

As Dray Prescot gathers his shattered empire, witchcraft strikes his new army with a bombardment of frogs. Allied wizards help him fight the Nine Unspeakable Curses, but the unpredictable Star Lords may complicate his campaign as readily as assist it.