TLDR
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A 1980 short story by Roger Zelazny riffing on the Saint George and the Dragon legend as recurring transactional theater.
Key Takeaways
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Roger Zelazny was a foundational voice in mythopoeic science fiction and fantasy, best known for the Amber series.
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“The George Business” frames the Saint George dragon-slaying myth as a repeatable commercial arrangement, not heroic singular act.
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Zelazny’s 1980s short fiction often deconstructed archetypes by treating legend as negotiated performance rather than destiny.
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The title signals the story’s tone: businesslike, ironic, stripping chivalric romance down to labor economics.
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