Korlis

'Incarnations of Immortality' series by Piers Anthony

Oops did not see that you already recommended Byl. Although i liked the whole series.

or the 'Recluce' series by L. E. Modesitt, Jr

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Elemak the Enchanter

Timothy Zahn's conqueror's series is pretty good, and if You haven't read Ender's Game you should.

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Maniacles

Oh man, right. Ender's Game is a must read, though you can skip everything else orson scott card writes. He struck gold once, but managed to strike out everywhere else....

Kind of like Frank Herbert and Dune.

Another fun one...
The Cross-Time Engineer (Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 1)
by Leo A. Frankowski (Author)
Modern day engineer goes back in time to poland, 10 years before the mongols invade.

And just so you know where my tastes lie, I read the "the wizard's first rule" and didn't really like it, so never finished the series. I've been trying to read Glen Cook's non black company novels, but just haven't been able to get into them...same with le modset stuff....It's ok, but they just don't hold my interest.

Quick synopses:

Raymond Feist Riftwar: Four book series in the "boy from the sticks becomes a hero" genre full of all yer standard fantasy critters
Robert Zelazny Amber:two 5 book series where everything that can be imagined actually exists somewhere between order and chaos, and the people who can move through the intervening "shadows"

Jack Vance Dying Earth: it's 5 billion years in the future, and the sun's about to go nova. Magic exists, has been codified, aliens have come and left, and everyone left on earth tends to be a bit amoral.....

Steven Brust Jhereg: First in a series of books about a human assassin living in the land of a people who live a few thousand years rather than the 100 humans live.

Stuff you may have missed:
Glenn Cook "The Black Company": None of this figuring out your power stuff, this mercenary company kicks ass, takes names, and, oops, works for the evil tyrant trying to put down the prophosied "good guy" rebellion.
Thomas T Thomas, "ME": A story about an artificial Intelligence, from the perspective of the Artificial Intelligence.
Christopher Stashef "A warlock in spite of himself": Space man lands on a planet where magic works.

Stuff to avoid
Robin Hobb (Hate the "morals" of assassin series, WAY too preachy.)

The good stuff:
Everything Neal Stephenson writes (if they have his grocery list on sale, buy it.). Even books I'm sure I'll not be interested have consistently been the best stuff I've ever read.

George Martin "a Game of Thrones": The first Fantasy series where I seriously worry whether my favorite characters will make it to the end or not.

Jim Butcher Dresden novels: Harry Dresden, The only entry in the modern day Chicago yellow pages under "Wizard".

Bylimet Spiritwalker

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Live like it matters!

akipt

Best SciFi book ever:

Armor.

Malse

You've got to be kidding. That book was god awful and barely even made sense. It was Starship Trooper's crack baby. On a side note, John Steakley is apparently really good looking, which is the only reason my friend bought the book. We regretted her capriciousness.

And re: Herbert and Card,

Both of them had a number of decent short stories but novel-wise they did indeed have "one good book in them," as the saying goes. Card in particular really needs to stick to shorts (the Ender's Game short story is arguably much better than the book and touches on most of the central themes. Frank Herbert's work isn't so much bad as very dated in most cases.

As for new material, here's something non-SF:

The Killer Angels

The sequels are all awful, though.

Oipunx the High Elf Cleri

PIX?!

That book was written in like the 60s its not really new.

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