Cory Doctorow Loves Farthing, Reads "I, Row-Boat"
If you read Boing Boing, you probably know this already, but...
SF writer Cory Doctorow posted a glowing review of Jo Walton's magnificent novel Farthing recently.
And he's also begun podcasting a new story, "I, Row-Boat," free to anyone who wants to listen to it. (And some commentators have pointed out that there was a satricial Onion story with a similar premise a few years back -- proving, yet again, that there are no new ideas.)

