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Originally Posted by tabacco
Really? I mean, most of the ones I go to have lots of Tolkien/Pratchett, but they don't take up more than a shelf or two, tops. Even Borders.
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Well, we're a small place, I don't remember the number of people who speak Estonian (in the world) but it's somewhere between 1 million and 2 million. So we've never got a lot of sci-fi published in our language in the first place.
Now it's like -- oh, we have Tolkien and Pratchett, we don't need to translate/publish anything else (an exaggeration, but the thing about those two taking up HALF of the shelf-space is NOT an exaggeration).
I've had to resort to ordering from the internet and visiting libraries
In the summer I ordered the whole Assassin/Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies by Robin Hobb. Lasted me a few months (each books is about 700-800 pages). And the Assassin trilogy became one of my all-time favorites.
I hear the situation is getting better, though.
