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Space Merchants

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ISBN-10: 1250000157

ISBN-13: 9781250000156

Edition: 2011 (Revised)

Authors: Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth

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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 trans-national corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and by far the best-paid profession. Through advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking that the quality of life is improved by all the products placed on the market. However, the most basic elements are incredibly scarce, including water and fuel. The planet Venus has just been visited and judged fit for human settlement, despite its inhospitable surface and climate; the colonists would have to endure a harsh climate for many…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 12/6/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

"Frederik Pohl" has won all the major awards in the field of science fiction, including three Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, both for Best Novel; the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, also for Best Novel; he was accorded the accolade of Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He's also won three Hugo awards as editor of the best magazine. He edited the groundbreaking "Star Science Fiction" series of original-story anthologies. He and his wife, educator and political activist Elizabeth Anne Hull, live in Palatine, Illinois.

Frederik Pohl was born in 1919 and has been professionally involved in sf as an editor and writer since his teens. Among his many books are A Plague of Pythons, Gateway, Man Plus and JEM: The Making of a Utopia. C.M. Kornbluth (1923-1958) was the bureau chief of a Chicago news agency until 1951 when he took up fiction writing full time. He established himself very quickly as a brilliant short-story writer with works such as �The Little Black Bag�, �The Marching Morons�, �The Cosmic Charge Account� and �Two Dooms�. Pohl and Kornbluth started writing stories together in 1940 and their collaborations include The Space Merchants, Search the Sky and Gladiators-at-Law.