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Dennis Block knows how things work at the cosmos level. If you do something right, you always get rewarded. With more of whatever you did. So every time this happens to him, he’s not surprised. But every time it does, he questions his life choices again. Being the Emergency Mage is his thing, even when it brings him more notoriety than he already has. But police work? Working a kidnapping or yanking a murderer doesn’t make him a police officer. He’s knows he doesn’t have the mindset to be a cop, but he has skills they can use. So now he needs to step up. Again. Now he’s Officer ...

Dennis Block has settled into being a senior mage. He’s set his boundaries. He calls people on their BS. He does what he wants to do, and helps people who need it. But as the standard League year goes on, the first of the end of year challenges approaches. Some think Jane gets a bit overzealous at times. Some think she just goes nuts because she can, or because no-one will challenge her. But Dennis has been looking forward to this. It’s time to be the Halloween Mage. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage Chronicle Yesterday's Spacemage Today's Spacemage ...

The Rawtenuga and Trixone wars are over, and Bud and his people have been relieved of the task of liberating the remaining Rawtenuga held planets. Jon and Jane have known about the Sanctuary system's planetary alignment for some time. All they know is it points to the Outback system, where the Door to Gaia used to be. Bud knows Ganesha wants him to do something, but doesn't know what or where.

Dennis Block has come to terms with being a mage. He’s still juggling different forms of magic work. He hasn’t chosen a lane yet. But he is adamant about two things. He doesn’t want to see his name in the media again. And he isn’t interested in having students. Be a guest helper, sure. He’s the Emergency and Colony Mage after all. But no students means no rank of master, and he’s good with that choice. He’s a working mage, and the last thing he wants is to be is a Master Mage. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage Chronicle Yesterday's ...

For Dennis Block, Christmas had its high points, but it also had the low as well. Now that’s behind him, he’s looking to once again stay out of the media eye. He’s not interested in exploration, or fleets, but when called to anything, he’ll go. Sometimes there is only one mage to call, and Dennis never knows what it will lead to. So when a Seer sees, he goes. And this time, he needs to be the Expedition Mage. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage Chronicle Yesterday's Spacemage Today's Spacemage Tomorrow's Spacemage The Hunter Legacy Prequels 1969 ...

It's crunch time for Jonathon Hunter. The Darkness War has begun. His nightmares led him to the edge of death, waiting for darkness. Prophecy will not be denied, and the nightmare seemed to suggest all would go black. But is a nightmare something you can really rely on after all? And when you've seen the future, is that all there is? Does it have to go that way? Finding out the truth can sometimes be worse than your worst nightmare ever was. The biggest fleet since Jutland is ready to fight the longest rear-guard action ever fought, but does it need to?

Dennis Block is the ultimate jack of all trades. But there is no such thing as the Valentine Mage. And even if there was, it wouldn’t be allowed. Dramas down the ages have shown why using magic on love is a bad idea. Dennis is in love with someone who loves him. Finally. Valentines can be hard on people. Those who get them, and those who don’t. The last thing anyone needs is someone messing with the emotions behind Valentine’s Day. So keep telling yourself, there is no such thing as the Valentine Mage. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage Chronicle ...

There are some days when you should just stay in bed. Jon Hunter begins to realize this, as the consequences of saying yes, when he should have said no, begin to add up. The trouble with making tech advances, is someone will always come up with a counter eventually. And when this occurs on one of those days you should have stayed in bed, the cosmos tends to demonstrate just how many ways things can actually go wrong. But time is ticking away. The door to Jon's home, and all the answers he so desperately wants, is soon to open. 

Dennis Block is one person you don’t want to piss off. He’s powerful enough, independent enough, and unique enough, to just deal with what comes. His problem is not the people doing the aggravation. No, his problem is that every time he deals with something, his life gets more complicated. And at sixty five before magic happened, he’d been working on a simple and peaceful life. That’s receding at an alarming rate now. He’s already juggling emergency work, colony work, and random work. And now he has to step up again, and be the Security Mage. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best ...

Dennis Block enjoyed Halloween, and is looking forward to Christmas. For one thing, he won’t be alone this year, and that makes it special. The big question on everyone’s mind is what Jane is going to do this year. Dennis isn’t worried. Whatever she comes up with, he’s on board for it. Some call this the silly season, and as such, there’s more than one reason to step up right now. The only thing he can’t be sure about, he also can’t control. Being the Emergency Mage comes before everything else. So all he can hope for is some time being the Christmas Mage. The Hunter Imperium ...

Never underestimate the capacity of a plant to learn something new from a dinosaur. Bud is getting a crash course in how to fight a war all on his own. At the same time, the needs of his homeworld and the Imperium distract him from the goal of finding where the Rawtenuga entered the core galaxy from. Being Thorn's heir has both positive and negative aspects to it, and as the war with the Rawtenuga keeps getting bigger, so do the demands from the civilian side of his life.

Bud is now the captain of a small capital ship, and so tactics must change. And once again, Navy Mage Squadron One leads the way. But the more the Imperium ups their game, the faster the Trixone adapt. And in the middle of things changing around Bud, the new prototype dreadnought is stolen. While seemingly unimportant to the war, Navy Mage One and Eagle Wing will find out just how wrong that perception is. Just when is a mysterious invitation a good thing or a bad thing, and will they be able to tell the difference in time?

Diplomacy is the bane of Bud's life these days.

As riots rage across the Human Federation space, what he'd been told on Sanctuary accelerates. Everyone wants his help.

The consequences of losing your temper for a moment grow with your power.

But is this a good thing or bad? Only time will tell, but suddenly everything seems to be happening at once.

Thorn is back. He's lost one civilization, and is still trying to fix two others. But fixing something when you don't know how it broke is never as simple as you'd think. The future is threatened by his own past, and to fix everything, he thinks he has to undo what he's already done. But what if what you did cannot be undone, and the future has more riding on it than anyone knows? Yesterday's Spacemage was the cause. Today's Spacemage was the effect. But can tomorrow's Spacemage save everyone?

The Door is only open for five days, and it should be long enough for what he needs. What he doesn't need is his whole concept of home to be challenged. Not when there is so much else to do. The answers he's long wanted are now within his grasp. But does he really want to know the truth? Can he handle the truth? And what else is there he doesn't know about? 

There's no such thing as a dull life for Jon Hunter. He's come to grips with being an Admiral. But why does someone want to keep him from becoming a Duke so badly, that collateral damage doesn't matter? The Midgard war is over, the British coup behind him, but war comes in many forms. Life isn't the same when you fly a desk, unless the desk comes under direct attack.

Dennis Block is reinventing his life. Again. Magic was not something he ever expected, but now he has it, it’s just something new to make a living at. At least now it’s stable, even if sometimes whimsical in what happens. The League of Worlds is slowly adapting to mages being among them, and mage services augmenting traditional ones. Out in Ralnor space, where a civil war still rages, they know the value of a good mage being there. And colonization is expanding rapidly in the Orion Cluster Protectorate, various places in Ralnor space, and on the two Terran colonies. It seems to be a ...

There's no such thing as a nice clean war. If fighting a war which might never end wasn't enough, now the Imperium has a new enemy. But now promoted to be a genuine squadron leader, Bud finds himself leading more than his squadron. Just how complicated can war get? Is the enemy of your enemy really your enemy? Or can their enemy become your friend while you're still at war with each other? Even in the middle of a brand new war, Bud finds people who think they know better about what he should be doing.

The Darkness War rages on, and a war weary Jonathon Hunter faces obstacles which only humans can create, while an enemy which keeps growing stronger, continues to force him to retreat. Saving humanity is the goal, but can Jon be excused for thinking some of it just doesn't want to be saved? Extraordinary events require extraordinary responses, but is Jon still up to the challenge? Humanity has its bolt hole in another galaxy, and Jon must stop the aliens arriving there before the Door closes, so the survivors will be safe. It's his job to ensure no alien enters Outback.

The Duchy of Hunter's Run has moved to the Gaia galaxy. But without its Duke. Twenty five billion people have appeared in the Gaia system unexpectedly, and only one person knows how or why. Yet preparations for fifteen billion exist, but only one person remembers the work being done. The one who knows, and the one who remembers, are the same, but Jane is not human. So good is she at hiding being an Artificial Intelligence, no-one knows except her fellow AI's. To her falls the responsibility for guiding Humanity as they come to terms with not knowing where they are. The how and why seem ...