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To: 50sDad
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

58 posted on 05/15/2003 9:04:00 PM PDT by Phsstpok
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To: Phsstpok
Also, the "Wizard of 4th Street" novels, where oil/technology/eco collapse and magic comes back to replace it, and any of the books in the "River of the Dancing Gods" book, where truck driver drops through WorldGate into medeaval magic world to become a Barbarian Warrior.
114 posted on 05/16/2003 6:49:09 AM PDT by 50sDad (Close the door! Are we cooling the entire neighborhood? And clean your room!)
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To: Phsstpok
Cooks work sounds like a great premise. Kind of brings it home for a lot of computer aficionados.
135 posted on 05/19/2003 4:39:32 PM PDT by bondserv
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