The Dragon in Lyonesse
core novel 1998 The Dragon Knight
Record
| First published | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.86 (633 ratings, collected 2026-09-05) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312861599 |
| Internal chronology | 8 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Dragon Knight
- Series: The Dragon Knight core; position 8 of 9 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Gordon R. Dickson
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 8 of 9: previous The Dragon and the Gnarly King (1997) · next The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent (2000)
Sources
← The Dragon Knight dossier · All universes
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