The Emperor's Soul sounded familiar when I started reading it. It turned out that I had read it before in Brandon Sanderson's Arcanum Unbounded story collection. However, I had not written about the interesting thought behind it. In this exploits, we follow the exploits of a master forger. She uses "soul stamps" to help forge things (both living and inanimate) into something else. The target appearance must be somewhere in the realm of plausibility. A rock could be another type of rock if that type could have logically been mined instead of this one. Works of art tend to be fairly easy. A simple painting could have easily be painted as a master work of art. However, the forger would have to have an intimate understanding of the work of art to properly forge it. These can be extended further to change people. A possible fork in a life can be used to create a "soul stone" that gives a person an alternate life. It poses interesting chances to relive "missed opportunities".
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