The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl - ISBN: 9780575075283
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Overcrowded world, ruthless ads, Venus colony, deadly corporate struggle.

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    192 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2003

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Summary

Time: The near future Place: Madison Avenue, New York

An overcrowded world is dominated by a few unscrupulous advertising agencies who have reduced the population to drug- and ad-conditioned consumers. Fowler Schocken Associates, who successfully organised India into a single giant cartel, have a new mission – the development and exploitation of Venus. Mitchell Courtenay, star-class copysmith, is chosen to sell it to potential colonists. But the Consies, a subversive conservation grou…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780575075283
ISBN-10:0575075287
Author:Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Gollancz
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:1 October 2003
Weight:174g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 22mm
Series:S.F. Masterworks
About The Author

Frederik Pohl

Pohl and Kornbluth started writing together as early as 1940, although both authors produced a wide variety of stories separately, under their own names and pseudonyms. Each wrote sections, starting where the other left off, and through long experience they developed an almost telepathic awareness of each other’s intentions.

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