The Dragon and the George
core novel 1976 The Dragon Knight
Record
| First published | 1976 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.90 (6,788 ratings, collected 2026-09-05) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345253613 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Jim Eckert, a modern-day graduate student in medieval history, is accidentally projected into a fantastical parallel world during a laboratory experiment in astral projection meant to send his girlfriend Angie there instead. He wakes to find his consciousness trapped in the body of a wounded dragon named Gorbash, discovering that this alternate reality runs on the logic of chivalric romance, complete with knights, wizards, and monsters drawn from medieval legend. Forced to navigate a society of actual dragons while still thinking like a twentieth-century academic, Jim must locate Angie, who has also been pulled into this world, and find a way for both of them to get home, all while contending with a dragon community that expects him to act, and fight, like one of their own.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Dragon Knight
- Series: The Dragon Knight core; position 1 of 9 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Gordon R. Dickson
Awards (verified)
- British Fantasy Award (Best Novel), 1977: won
Notes
- From the series record (The Dragon Knight): Nine-novel portal-fantasy series (1976-2000) about Jim Eckert, a modern graduate student pulled into a parallel fantasy world and transformed into a dragon, who must navigate a mixed cast of dragons, knights and magical creatures to rescue his fiancee. Opened with a British Fantasy Award-winning novel expanded from a 1957 short story; completed with the ninth volume in 2000, before Dickson's death in 2001, no further installments planned or announced.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Dragon Knight: position 1 of 9: next The Dragon Knight (1990)
Sources
- Dragon Knight (novel series) - Wikipedia
- Gordon R. Dickson - Order of Books
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dragon_and_the_George
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