title: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials: The Official Graphic Novel Prelude
author:  Jackson Lanzing 
description: JacksonLanzing&amp; CollinKellyare writers with a decade of experience in a variety of mediums, from features to animation to comic books.As comics creators,Lanzing and Kellyhave written for DC Entertainment, BOOM! Studios, and IDW on titles including <i>Batman &amp; Robin Eternal</i>, <i>Grayson</i>, and <i>Hacktivist</i>. This year, they released their first creator-owned comic at BOOM! Studios, the critically-acclaimed ongoing teenage space adventure <i>Joyride</i>.
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  Mazes of Scorpio
  
  Alan Burt Akers
  
  Mushroom eBooks
  
  
  A Note on the Pandahem Cycle
  
  Dray Prescot often calls himself a plain sailorman, yet the picture he paints
  of himself in these narratives is highly enigmatic. In _Mazes of Scorpio,_ the
  first volume of the Pandahem Cycle, a completely new era in his life begins to
  develop. True, he was a powder monkey in Nelson’s Navy, and clawed his way
  through the hawsehole to the quarterdeck to become first lieutenant of a
  seventy-four. But he was disappointed with his posting. When the Savanti,
  those mortal yet superhuman people of the Swinging City of Aphrasöe on far
  Kregen, called him to serve as a Savapim in their schemes, he crossed the gulf
  of four hundred light-years more than willingly.
  
  Rejected by the Savanti, he in turn spurned them for the sake of Delia. Only
  through the machinations of the Star Lords was Prescot brought back to Kregen.
  He has fought his way on that marvelous and brilliant wo