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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
"The Apprentice Adept" series ("Split Infinity", "Blue Adept", and "Juxtaposition" for the original trilogy). One of his better ones.
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Crossing universes is a common fantasy trope to take the reader from the mundane world of reason to a land of magic. Whether it be Donaldson's Thomas Covenant, Alan Dean Foster's SPELLSINGER, or Christopher Stasheff's WIZARD IN RHYME, to name just a few.
Quite a few others have gone through deep convolutions to cast fantasy as SF. Christopher Stasheff's WARLOCK series, Marion Zimmer Bradley's DARKOVER come to mind. I'm sure plenty of other examples come to mind.
Again, I think that if we're to try to classify the continuum of "non-mundane" stories, we need to go to the core of the story, first; what is the story about. Afterwards we can take a look at the setting and the rationalization, if any. In general, Fantasy doesn't usually bother with trying to explain its magic whereas SF usually tries to justify its "magic" in rationalist terms.
Of course, general rules are anything but universal.
