SOLVED. Fantasy - story of a programmer sucked into a world with magic. [s]

[Dcmckinney]

Format: Paperback
Language: English
Circa: I read this book in the mid 2000's

What I remember about the book: The protagonist is a male who works at software programming of some type. I forget the foil used, but he is sucked into a world where magic is real and technology is non-existent. For some reason, he starts learning magic and utilizes his coding skills to write spells. He makes spell compilers and things like that.

For a moment, I thought it was "The Sherwood Game by Esther Friesner", but that is a quite different story. I can't think of any other details at the moment and hope this is enough to help some of you remember the name of this book as I'd love to read it again.

[Aerulan]

Maybe Broken Crescent by S. Andrew Swann?

[Dcmckinney]

Aerulan wrote: "Maybe Broken Crescent by S. Andrew Swann?"

That's plausible. The cover and such don't light any memories for me. I'll have to read it and see. :-) Thanks for the possibility.

[Laura]

I havnet read it yet, but i have Off to Be the Wizard in my TBR list and seems to be pretty similar.

[Peter]

Sounds like The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook. It's the oldest example I know of with magic treated like computer code.

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Peter wrote: "Sounds like The Wiz Biz by Rick Cook."

Concur. There's a series based on this, and an omnibus edition. There are problems with our hero's compiler that was totally solved in the 80s... but I digress.

Hero gets the hot red-headed witch, and decides to stay.

[Dcmckinney]

Aerulan wrote: "Maybe Broken Crescent by S. Andrew Swann?"

That was not it. Decent read though. Thank you for the suggestion.

[Dcmckinney]

Peter and Justanotherbiblophile, you all are correct!

That was the name of the book I was trying to remember.

I thank you all for your help.