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Or maybe "The Merchant of Stratford"? https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/shakespeare400/2016/03/03/the-merchant-of-stratford/ https://www.library.illinois.ed

Or maybe "The Merchant of Stratford"? https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/shakespeare400/2016/03/03/the-merchant-of-stratford/ https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/shakespeare400/2016/03/...

tzs 7y ago
That's definitely it. It looks like someone has republished it as a stand-alone story on Kindle [1]. That says 19 pages, which seems longer than the story I remember. I wonder if it was expanded from the original short story in Asimov's? It's also in this anthology of science fiction humor stories [2]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Merchant-Stratford-Frank-Ramirez-ebook/dp/B00NIDLPUK https://www.amazon.com/Merchant-Stratford-Frank-Ramirez-eboo... [2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395305195/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395305195/
- edflsafoiewq 7y ago
  The Internet Archive has a copy: https://archive.org/details/Asimovs_v03n07_1979-07/page/n123/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Asimovs_v03n07_1979-07/page/n123...
  - mindcrime 7y ago
    Very fun story. Glad you were able to dig that link up.
- kshacker 7y ago
  Dude someone went back in time and left a review on Amazon from 2014 : mentioning hacker news. Good job guys. You were fast [comment in the spirit of the thread]
  - tzs 7y ago
    It turns out I mentioned the story here on HN in 2014 [1], which is probably where that person saw it. As with the present thread, I didn't remember the name of the story and got the time frame wrong. Also as in the present thread people quickly found the name and where/when it was originally published. And in that thread, someone also linked to the "everybody kills Hitler" story that I linked to (although they linked to it at its original site, which is still up, instead of linking to a republication link I did). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261790
simcop2387 7y ago
Awesome, I guess this is a common topic for Sci-Fi stories that there's so many similar ones.

Or maybe "The Merchant of Stratford"? https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/shakespeare400/2016/03/03/the-merchant-of-stratford/ https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/shakespeare400/2016/03/...

tzs 7y ago

That's definitely it. It looks like someone has republished it as a stand-alone story on Kindle [1]. That says 19 pages, which seems longer than the story I remember. I wonder if it was expanded from the original short story in Asimov's? It's also in this anthology of science fiction humor stories [2]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Merchant-Stratford-Frank-Ramirez-ebook/dp/B00NIDLPUK https://www.amazon.com/Merchant-Stratford-Frank-Ramirez-eboo... [2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395305195/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395305195/

edflsafoiewq 7y ago
The Internet Archive has a copy: https://archive.org/details/Asimovs_v03n07_1979-07/page/n123/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Asimovs_v03n07_1979-07/page/n123...
- mindcrime 7y ago
  Very fun story. Glad you were able to dig that link up.
kshacker 7y ago
Dude someone went back in time and left a review on Amazon from 2014 : mentioning hacker news. Good job guys. You were fast [comment in the spirit of the thread]
- tzs 7y ago
  It turns out I mentioned the story here on HN in 2014 [1], which is probably where that person saw it. As with the present thread, I didn't remember the name of the story and got the time frame wrong. Also as in the present thread people quickly found the name and where/when it was originally published. And in that thread, someone also linked to the "everybody kills Hitler" story that I linked to (although they linked to it at its original site, which is still up, instead of linking to a republication link I did). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8261790

simcop2387 7y ago

Awesome, I guess this is a common topic for Sci-Fi stories that there's so many similar ones.