- James Eckert (Fictitious character), Dragons, Time travel, Fiction
Jim Eckert was a dragon. He hadn't planned it that way, but that's what happened when he set out to rescue his betrothed. Following her through an erratic astral-projection machine, Jim suddenly found himself in a cockeyed world - locked in the body of a talking dragon named Gorbash.
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Unpretentious, classical in form, resolved and effortless.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Gordon R. Dickson
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Terra Fantastica, Ballantine Books, Del Rey
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780345295149
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“At 10:30 a.m., sharp, James Eckert pulled up in front of Stoddard Hall on the Riveroak College campus, where Grottwold Weinar Hansen had his lab.”
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