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The Space Merchants (Space Merchants, Bk 1)
The Space Merchants - Space Merchants, Bk 1
Author: Frederik Pohl, C. M. Cornbluth
In a vastly overpopulated near-future world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold all political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge transnational corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and boasts some of the world's most powerful executives. — Through advertising, the public is cons...  more »
ISBN: 105496
Publication Date: 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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