Science Fiction Novel by
Frederik Pohl and
Cyril M. Kornbluth.
* * * * *
Mitchell Courtenay is a very important person, a
star-class copysmith for a major
advertising firm. His
Social Security Number has a mere nine digits!
He has just completed the deal on
Indiastries, the first merger bringing the economy of an entire
subcontinent under one
product line.
He is about to top that with the biggest deal ever, the terraforming and settling of
Venus.
Then one day, someone
kidnaps him and takes it all away. Maybe a rival executive, but more likely those dirty
Consies....
Written in
1959, before
consumer protection laws made
misleading advertising illegal (at least in theory),
The Space Merchants explores what would happen if
1 marketing types and advertising agencies controlled the world. It exposes the
fraud and
corporate backstabbing perpetrated in the tyrannical
oligarchic plutocracy that
capitalism can become if left unchecked.
The Space Merchants is arguably the best science fiction novel ever written;
A MUST READ.
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