The Space Merchants
by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth
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Mitch Courtney is a Copysmith Star Class, fighting his way up the corporate ladder in an age when consumerism has conquered America. Products like Coffiest, the morning cupful laced with an addicting chemical, have captured the population's minds...and souls. And now Mitch has something to sell that would take every dirty advertising trick in the book: the planet Venus—hot, malevolent, and America's newest colony. But Venus' inhospitable climate is the least of his worries: his beautiful wife is dumping him, a fellow exec is sabotaging him, the Consies (aka Conservationists) want to stop him, and somebody is trying to kill him.„in a searing satire of corporate America where everything is fair—even murder.
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The Space Merchants
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Eine Handvoll Venus
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The Space Merchants
1987-03, St. Martin's Press
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The Space Merchants
1985, St. Martin's Press
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The Space Merchants
February 12, 1978, Del Rey
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The Space Merchants
November 12, 1974, Ballantine Books
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The space merchants
1972, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The Space Merchants
August 15, 1958, St. Martin's Press
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The Space Merchants is a 1952 science fiction novel by American writers Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine as a serial entitled Gravy Planet, the novel was first published as a single volume in 1953, and has sold heavily since. It deals satirically with a hyper-developed consumerism, seen through the eyes of an advertising executive. In 1984, Pohl published a sequel, The Merchants' War. In 2012, it was included in the Library of America omnibus American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953–1956. Pohl revised the original novel in 2011 with added material and more contemporary references.
It was rated the 24th "all-time best novel" in a 1975 Locus poll, jointly with The Martian Chronicles and The War of the Worlds. The novel was also included in David Pringle's list of 100 best science fiction novels.
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