The fiancée of the young historian James Eckert works part-time as an assistant to a psychological scientist, with whom she conducts experiments on the projection of astral bodies in time and space. During one of the experiments, she disappears in front of her fiancé. Jim demands to be transferred after her - and finds himself in the body of a dragon in an alternative 14th century, a magical world inhabited by fairy-tale creatures. Jim's bride is captured by Dark Forces and Jim begins to fight them...One of the most famous American science fiction writers, Gordon Dixon, author of the famous Dorsai series, appears this time as a master of cheerful and at the same time heroic fantasy. The novel “The Dragon and George” opens a large cycle of the same name.