[50sDad]

Stafshee's "Her Majesty's Wizard" - Catholic-leaning Humanist drops into magic world, discovers his rhyming skills make him a powerful wizard, gradually comes to discover "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility." And anything in his "Wizard in Spite of Himeslf" series (King Kobald included!)

Read Heinlein's "Farnam's Freehold" and that "Japs invade America" book, something about "Mota."

[Phsstpok]

I also greatly enjoyed "Her Majesty's Wizard."

I personally like Rick Cooks Wiz series best of all. Computer programmer falls into a magic world (literally) and dicovers that he can write a magic compiler. It's pretty straight magic and adventure in the first couple of books, but the humor is all built around things computer geeks would get best. By the fourth of fifth book it's mostly about the jokes, but for those in the business they are a riot. I swear that I was at the party he describes at Comdex in one of the books where they come back to Earth.

He starts alot of the chapters with pithy "quotes" from the hero, or others. One I like is:

"Magic is real - unless declared integer."

There's a web page of more of the quotes at:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/5347/sf027.html

[Swordmaker]

Read Heinlein's "Farnam's Freehold" and that "Japs invade America" book, something about "Mota."

That was "Sixth Column" in which the PanAsian Union invaded and conquered the US... and six survivors of a secret military laboratory invent an underground resistance masquerading as a new religion... of the Great God Mota in his six Avatars... utilizing a new super technology that's discovery killed everyone at the lab except the six.