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Cargando... The Dragon and the George (1976 original; edición 1978)por Gordon R. Dickson
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Charming and droll tale of a young couple who are transported to a parallel universe version of merrie England complete with dragons and wolves that talk and other stranger creatures. The hero of the tale, James, winds up in the body of a dragon and the story focuses on his misadventures while trying to rescue his girlfriend who has been taken prisoner by the baddies. Nothing profound, but a good and lighthearted read, which is a nice change from some of the angst ridden fantasy tomes I have been reading lately. Didn't realise till now that 8 sequels were produced much later - don't know if I'll bother, but I've decided to keep this one anyway. ( ) Dickson, Gordon R. The Dragon and the George. 1976. Preface by David Drake. Dragon Knight No. 1. Start, 2013. I can scarcely believe that it has been two decades since Gordon R. Dickson died. I somehow keep expecting another Dorsai or Hoka story to appear any day now. Dickson had a dry wit that one does not usually find in writers of adventure fantasy and military science fiction. But The Dragon and the George, the first novel in the Dragon Knight series, has it aplenty. Consider its premise: Jim, a struggling teaching assistant in the English department of a small Minnesota college, has to try to rescue his fiancé Angela when an astral projection experiment in the psychology lab where she works runs amok and teleports her who knows where. He straps himself into the machine and soon finds his consciousness inhabiting the body of a large dragon in a cave where Angela is being held by other dragons. So, Jim is a dragon and Angela is a George because to dragons all human beings are Georges. Let the adventure begin. Not only is there more wit than one expects but stronger character development. In his heroic quest to free Angela, Jim finds that he and the dragon have similar character flaws, including anger management issues. I enjoyed reading this one again. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesDragon Knight (1) Pertenece a las series editorialesFantacollana [Nord] (35) Science Fiction Book Club (2770) Tascabili Fantasy (7.19) Contenido enTiene la adaptaciónPremiosListas de sobresalientes
Through no fault of his own, the once human Jim Eckert had become a dragon. Unfortunately, his beloved Angie had remained human. But in this magical land anything could happen. To make matter worse, Angie had been taken prisoner by an evil dragon and was held captive in the impenetrable Loathly Tower. So in this land where humans were edible and beasts were magical--where spells worked and logic didn't--Jim Eckert had a big, strange problem. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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