I'm asking because I want to specialize in Battlefield Control, and cannot choose between the two. Admittedly, Sorcerer-Mailman seems good, but Sorcerer's lack of class features worries me.

Wizard, while being a metamagic machine, has to prepare spells daily, thus leaving him venerable when a fight doesn't go entirely as planned. So you prepared Fly, the ceiling is only 10ft high, and that ogre looks hungry...


Books-wise, almost all books from all settings, minus Minis Handbook (which I don't think supports Wiz/Sorc Anyway), are available to my grubby fingers