"The Dragon Knight is a series of fantasy novels that began in 1976 by Gordon R. Dickson (1923\u20132001). The first book informed the 1982 animated movie The Flight of Dragons by Rankin/Bass, but was previously published as a short story, St. Dragon and the George. The title here refers in part to an in-universe nomenclature, wherein the story's dragons use the name \"george\" as a synonym or substitute of \"human\", after 'St. George the Dragon-Slayer', and in part a reference to the latter."@en .