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It took a unique one-in-a-billion accident of science to produce Johnny Storm. Bobby just had to be born. People like Johnny Storm will not replace the human race. Mutants like Bobby will. That is the point people like Stryker and Trask are operating off of.

The Empire of The Wolf series - In the running for Best Modern Fantasy Series I've Read. Great things start from little things. When Justice Sir Konrad Vonvalt prevents a massacre in a tiny northern pagan village and earns the enmity of priest Bartholomew Claver, he has no idea that act will...

Two Tales of Vampires Adrift by K.R. Griffiths Whiteout by Gabriel Dylan Both were pretty darn good. Both deal with isolation - in Whiteout. 30 teens are stranded in a ski chalet by an unexpected storm. In Adrift, an EMP cripples a cruise ship. Then, the vampires show up. In both books, the...

Interesting. Never heard of it before. I'll have to check it out when I can get it cheaper.

In the Shadow of Their Dying - Michael R. Fletcher, Anna Smith Spark Grimdark fantasy novella - Tash, the third best assassin in Sharaam, Pitt, the merc crew leader, and Iananr the Bound, demon - trapped in Sharaam as a massive army lays siege to it with alchemical weapons of terrifying power...

For a good example of 'what happens if we change fundamental physics', read Stephan Baxter's novel 'Raft', set in a universe where the force of gravity is a billion times stronger than it is in ours.

The Mage Wars series by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon. So, I didn't enjoy these nearly as well as I have other Valdemar books, and I might just lay that at the feet of Dixon, Lackey's husband. Mainly because two of the books have nothing to do with the Mage Wars. Part of this is my...

I don't recall them doing this. I think they hint that it is a destructive process - you put a personality into a stone, you are moving rather than copying. Another aspect of the system I like is that the skill of the caster and the quality of the stone play a part in this. A skilled caster...

Norylska Groans by Michael R. Fletcher - low-magic Russian-inspired industrial fantasy. Their magic consists of placing skills and personalities into stones that, when worn, give you that ability. It also comes with partial personality traits as well, so many users have a group of stones giving...