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The Dragon Mage Books in Order

Part ofScott Baron Books in Order

Explore The Dragon Mage series by Scott Baron in order, with quick summaries, world background, and tips on where to start Charlie's long-running saga.

Last updated: July 3, 2026

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12 books

1

Bad Luck Charlie

by Scott Baron

2019

Charlie Gault is an engineer with rotten luck and no taste for space travel. When a wormhole drops him into a galaxy ruled by magic instead of technology, surviving long enough to get home becomes a full-time job.

2

Checkmate Charlie

by Scott Baron

2019

With entire worlds on the line, Charlie is forced into a high-stakes game where every move matters. He has survived on luck and nerve before, but this time the endgame demands real strategy.

3

Dragon King Charlie

by Scott Baron

2019

Running a space program is hard enough without also being tangled up in royal duties. Charlie has to juggle magic, politics, and growing danger while trying not to let an entire kingdom, or himself, collapse.

4

Magic Man Charlie

by Scott Baron

2019

Bad luck still sticks to Charlie, but now magic is part of the problem as well as the solution. As the stakes rise, his growing powers pull him deeper into a conflict he never asked to join.

5

Portal Thief Charlie

by Scott Baron

2019

Portals, pursuers, and bad decisions keep Charlie moving whether he likes it or not. When new trouble opens paths to even bigger danger, he has to lean on brains, luck, and friends to survive the chase.

6

Rebel Mage Charlie

by Scott Baron

2019

Charlie gets dragged even further into resistance and rebellion as old dangers return in new forms. Winning means more than staying alive now, and he has to decide what kind of mage, and leader, he wants to be.

7

Space Pirate Charlie

by Scott Baron

2019

Charlie thought life might finally be improving, but becoming a space pirate only gives his bad luck more room to work. Between dangerous allies, fresh enemies, and no easy way out, he has to bluff and improvise to stay alive.

8

Star Fighter Charlie

by Scott Baron

2019

Charlie is now a magic-using astronaut facing threats on a much larger scale. To protect the people counting on him, he has to fight in space, think fast, and somehow stay one step ahead of invasion.

9

Warp Speed Charlie

by Scott Baron

2019

Charlie's problems are no longer limited to one corner of the universe. As trouble spreads across more than one galaxy, he has to move fast, think bigger, and keep impossible odds from becoming a total disaster.

10

Castaway Charlie

by Scott Baron

2021

Murphy's Law hits Charlie again when he winds up cut off and struggling to survive. Stranded far from help, he has to outlast the situation and figure out how to turn one more catastrophe into a chance.

11

End Game Charlie

by Scott Baron

2022

An alien threat now stretches across not one or two, but three galaxies. Charlie heads into the final push with too much at stake to fail and too many people depending on him to walk away.

12

Wild Card Charlie

by Scott Baron

2022

Charlie is thrown into yet another bad hand, this time in a place where the rules keep changing. To protect his people and salvage the mission, he has to become the unpredictable piece no one accounted for.

Series background & context

The Dragon Mage takes a classic fish-out-of-water setup and gives it a very Scott Baron twist. Charlie Gault starts out as an engineer with rotten luck and no real talent for smooth, heroic living. Then things get worse in the best possible way. In Bad Luck Charlie, he is thrown into a galaxy where magic matters as much as technology, and survival becomes the first order of business.

Charlie is the heart of the series. He is not a chosen one in the shiny, effortless sense. He is anxious, sarcastic, resourceful, and often trying to solve impossible problems while pretending he has a better handle on things than he actually does. That makes him easy to root for. He gets dragged into strange worlds, political messes, pirate trouble, magical conflicts, and responsibilities he absolutely did not volunteer for, yet he keeps going.

His luck is awful.

What makes the series fun is the world around him. These books live in a space where starships, portals, kings, dragons, pirates, and mages can all belong in the same story without feeling like separate genres stitched together by force. Baron uses that mix to keep the series lively. One book may lean harder into space adventure, another into magic or royal politics, but the overall effect is a big rolling sci-fantasy universe that keeps opening outward.

Across books like Space Pirate Charlie, Dragon King Charlie, Magic Man Charlie, and the many later entries, Charlie's role keeps changing. What begins as a struggle to stay alive and maybe get home slowly turns into something larger. He gains allies, enemies, responsibilities, and a deeper place in the fate of more than one world. The pleasure of the series is watching that growth happen without Charlie ever fully losing the off-balance underdog energy that made him appealing in the first place.

The tone stays lively. There is humor, banter, and a general sense that Charlie would really prefer a simpler life, even while the books keep denying him one. But the stakes are real. Invasions, betrayals, war, and larger galactic threats all show up sooner or later, and the later books are not shy about scale.

If you want a long-running saga with one central hero, a big mixed-genre setting, and plenty of momentum, The Dragon Mage is probably the best place to settle in with Baron for a while. It is built for readers who like seeing an unlucky outsider stumble into greatness one crisis at a time.

Edited by

Richard Reis

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Anurag Ramdasan

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