The Dragon Knight
core novel 1990 The Dragon Knight
Record
| First published | 1990 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.91 (2,098 ratings, collected 2026-09-05) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780812509434 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Set five months after the events of The Dragon and the George, this fantasy novel follows Jim and Angie as they settle into life in a parallel fourteenth-century England, where Jim now holds the title of Sir James, Baron of Malencontri et Riveroak, and still occasionally shifts into his dragon form of Gorbash when circumstances demand it. Trying in earnest to be a good and responsible English lord despite his twentieth-century instincts, Jim instead finds himself drawn into a quest to rescue England's young captive prince from captivity in France, a mission that pits him against supernatural opposition as well as the ordinary hazards of medieval warfare and court politics. Balancing his duties as a landholder with the demands of magic and knighthood proves harder than Jim expected.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Dragon Knight
- Series: The Dragon Knight core; position 2 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 2 of 9: previous The Dragon and the George (1976) · next The Dragon on the Border (1992)
Sources
- Dragon Knight (novel series) - Wikipedia
- Gordon R. Dickson - Order of Books
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dragon_Knight_(novel)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dragon_Knight
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