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The Space Merchants (Space Merchants, Bk 1)
The Space Merchants - Space Merchants, Bk 1
Author: Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth
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 o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780345242907
ISBN-10: 0345242904
Publication Date: 11/12/1974
Pages: 216
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Meet Mitch Courtenay--Copysmith Star Class--a man of no small importance in the Madison Avenue pecking order. His latest assignment: create an advertising campaign that will sell the american people on emigrating to Venus. It's a fight all the way for Courtenay, as he contends with enemies in rival agencies, with underground ecology groups--and with a wife who won't come home unless he quits his job.
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Mitchell Courtenay, an advertising copywriter of the future is assigned to sway public support for the American colonization of Venus


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