Comments on: Other Peoples’ Money http://craphound.com/?p=1932 Cory Doctorow's Literary Works Thu, 16 May 2013 14:01:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: J. Devitt http://craphound.com/?p=1932&cpage=1#comment-309276 J. Devitt Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:01:52 +0000 http://craphound.com/?p=1932#comment-309276 I really really liked this story. I picked it up through the Escape Pod feed and this was my introduction to the wonderful mind of Cory Doctorow.

]]> By: Michelle Pierre http://craphound.com/?p=1932&cpage=1#comment-293576 Michelle Pierre Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:05:03 +0000 http://craphound.com/?p=1932#comment-293576 Unworkable, yes.

]]> By: Randolph Carter http://craphound.com/?p=1932&cpage=1#comment-199517 Randolph Carter Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:24:58 +0000 http://craphound.com/?p=1932#comment-199517 Cory Doctorow has the incredible ability to take a subject you'd think would be really boring--like yard sale hunting or venture capital--and by adding just a few minor science fiction elements, make that subject really amazingly boring.

What on Earth would make anyone think I want to read a one-sided conversation on the more outre aspects of VC? Especially one written from such a naive point of view--by someone who obviously has no clue how VC works, but knows all the buzzwords. The only high point in the story was the concept of the Chinese brute-forcing the solution space of all possible plastic stuff Americans would want to buy. It's an amusing idea, but five seconds of thought and a little knowledge of combinatorics shows it's completely ludicrous and unworkable.

Bad story! Bad! Bad!

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