Haha, great story! I personally don't like most time-travel stories (a la Greg Egan - too much science, sorry, not for me), so this was very refreshing.
(and a very nice excuse for not doing any work :D)

Useless (I can open my books, thankyouverymuch), but ohh so cool!

That one is a classic! I must've read the book 10 times and I still laugh my ass off at that part.

The ending is brilliant:
"There was one great dent across the top that had the appearance of a mocking grin, and it drove us furious, so that Harris rushed at the thing, and caught it up, and flung it far into the middle of the river, and as it sank we hurled our curses at it, and we got into the boat and rowed away from the spot, and never paused till we reached Maidenhead."

I can just picture the evil tin grinning at them...

But hey, this is a modern one and should work better. But carry a knife, just in case.

Exactly. I was expecting something Librivox style - separate mp3s plus an archive.

...no archive with all the mp3s, sucks :(

Awesome. I wanted to start listening to audiobooks again and didn't know where to look first... this is going to be perfect.

Sweet, thanks for the tip. I listened to one of their podcasts a while ago and it was great, but I forgot the check the website afterwards. And I never get to read the stories nominated for anything... listening will hopefully work better.

This series needs to be in small Eastern European countries.

:(

Well, I for one am pretty happy with my (admittedly old) ebook reader (the eBookwise). I get no eye strain from it - except for that time when I read about 10 hours straight on a loong bus trip, but I would've had the same problem with a dead treee book -, it has no isssues with DRM (I can convert several formats to the stuff it can read), it's not much heavier than a book & it's the same size as a trade paperback... The only issue is that the upload process is a bit too complicated for my laziness (if something requires me to plug a cable in and start software, it's complicated). And it was only $125.

I like 'real' books, a lot, but living in a non-English speaking country means that you can't find many English books and, when you can, they're pretty expensive. So ebooks are the salvation :)

Very cool interview, thanks for the link. I think Jeff's novels are brilliant - especially City of Saints, which fascinated me enough to read it twice and I think the third one is also coming close.

I second the comments for Eastern Europe - it's not like in the video, we either use the "American" or "Japanese" way.

"gorgeous photographs of human dissection"

This just sounds so wrong. I try not to think about how my body works because it's scary. Too fragile.

Breathtaking scenery? I'd rather keep my breath (and my life).

How disturbing is that I want to try those just because of the Discworld vague association?

This is so awesome. I don't care about how and why he did it or how he uses it - it's got BOOKS and it looks so damn cool.

Pooh seems to be unphazed...

Hm, I wasn't expecting so many positive comments... Not that it's a bad idea, but if you get drunk I douby you can remember how many glasses you've had...

(maybe the above posters aren't lightweights like me :P)

I voted for Fragile Things. I like the variety in his short stories and I think short stories are a good way for the reader to get a 'feel' of the author. Unfortunately, it looks like Romania isn't the only place where short stories don't sell...

My second option would've been Neverwehere. #7 is right, you'd have to know London to appreciate it, but we've got wikipedia for those of us who haven't been to London. The story is a bit confusing, but I liked the storytelling (and some awesome jokes).

Unfortuately, American Gods seems to be winning... I can't say I didn't like it, but it's definitely not my favorite.

Epic, then legendary. WoW order :P

And I'll get fired, this is yet another way to waste a lot of time without producing anything :|

Awww, look at that cute blod...

Very cool. And the show sounds very interesting, too bad I don't speak Norwegian.

Awesome. Roland from Dark Tower, on a budget.

Glad you liked the Romanian story :) I haven't read it, but any recognition we get is good :D

Thank you for that article. It's always nice to read things by people who can express your own ideas more coherently. I don't think SF is *the* only worthwile genre, but I am so sick and tired of 'good SF' being labeled as 'literature' and 'bad SF' being labeled as 'SF'. Personally, I prefer SF (speculative fiction - I like fantasy more than science fiction) to realistic day-to-day-life novels. It's just personal preference. But I fail to understand how intelligent people can refuse to read a book just because 'it's SF' and then rave about 'Never Let Me Go' (why, of course, it's SF, because we have clones running around).

The good thing is that things are changing. I don't know about the rest of the world, but I feel that SF is slowly beginning to be accepted as 'real literature' in Romania.

I do think they should clean up after themselves (or hire someone to do that, or pay for it), but come on, it's FUN!

It's, erm, ugly. And you can tell it's a cutout from any angle except one.

I like shorts, if they're well done. I love trying to fill in the pieces. My favourite author (Roger Zelazny, in case anyone's wondering) has awesome shorts with basically no background, but great nonetheless.

I'm curious about this anthology, though I'm not sure whether I'd like stories written by scientists, since hard SF is not my cup of tea at all.