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228:. 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. Some of the products contain addictive substances designed to make consumers dependent on them. However, the most basic elements of life are incredibly scarce, including water and fuel. Personal transport may be pedal powered, with rickshaw rides being considered a luxury. The planet 148: 278:, in south-eastern Italy, as a weather forecaster. Shortly after learning of his mother's death in 1944, and feeling somewhat homesick, he decided to start writing a novel about New York. He chose to write about the advertising industry, thinking it to be the most interesting topic in the city, and patiently wrote "a long, complicated, and very bad novel" with the title of 240:
The protagonist, Mitch Courtenay, is a star-class copywriter in the Fowler Schocken advertising agency who has been assigned the ad campaign which would attract colonists to Venus. But a lot more is happening than he knows about. It soon becomes a tale of mystery and intrigue, in which many of the
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as an ordinary working stiff. His ID number tattooed on his arm has been altered so he cannot reclaim his old identity. However, his skills remain intact. He becomes the propaganda specialist for a cadre of revolutionaries (the World Conservationist Association, known as Consies), in the process
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The Space Merchants has also been praised for its investigation of themes relating to 'prosumption', and the impact of overconsumption. Critic Mike Ryder (2022) argues that one of the most significant themes is the ‘robotization’ of producers and consumers, such that the very nature of humanity
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and was looking for new titles. Ballantine agreed to publish it—Pohl joked that "he was just too inexperienced to know that it was no good"—and it was released in May 1953 in simultaneous paperback and hardcover editions. The book edition dropped the previously published concluding
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characters are not what they seem, and Mitch's loyalties and opinions change drastically over the course of the narrative. One of the hazards he faces is a psychopathic agent of his former company, found using the same psychological techniques used to identify targets for advertising.
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After the war ended, in early 1946, he re-read the manuscript, and decided that its major flaw was that he had written it despite knowing nothing about advertising. Before rewriting it, he applied for advertising jobs to gain some background, and on 1 April 1946 joined a small
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praised it as "bitter, satiric, exciting easily one of the major works of logical extrapolation in several years.... a sharp melodrama of power-conflict and revolt which manages... to explore all the implied developments of society."
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becoming a convert to the cause of those he once manipulated as mere consumers. In the end he confronts those who stole his life, who are not necessarily his enemies, and those from his old life, who are not necessarily his friends.
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arrived, having quit his job in Chicago to freelance as a science fiction writer, and offered to look over the manuscript. A short while later he returned, having incorporated some plot suggestions made by
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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 generations until the planet could be
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However, finding a publisher for the novel itself was not easy. Pohl offered it to every American publishing house which printed science fiction, without any success. Eventually, he met
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and written a new twenty-thousand word middle section; the two men collaborated on the final third, and after Pohl gave it a final revision, the novel was complete.
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The film rights were sold for $ 50,000, though an adaptation was never made. It was adapted for radio by the
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reviewer Mark Reinsberg described it as "a marvellously entertaining story" and "A brilliant future satire."
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As with many significant works of science fiction, it was lexically inventive. The novel is cited by the
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referred to the novel as "one of the top two science fiction novels of all time."
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chapters, reportedly added for the magazine version at the request of
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C.M. Kornbluth: The Life and Works of a Science Fiction Visionary
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called the novel "perhaps the best science fiction satire since
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world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now
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American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s
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American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953–1956
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American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953–1956
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It was rated the 24th "all-time best novel" in a 1975
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Works originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction
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from the original on 2021-12-14 – via YouTube.
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is a 1952 science fiction novel by American writers
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New Maps of Hell : a survey of science fiction
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Index

The Space Traders

Frederik Pohl
Cyril M. Kornbluth
Richard M. Powers
Space Merchants
Satire
Ballantine Books
The Merchants' War

Galaxy Science Fiction
Frederik Pohl
Cyril M. Kornbluth
Galaxy Science Fiction
consumerism
The Merchants' War
Library of America
overpopulated
hold political power
trans-national corporations
Venus
terraformed
Antarctica
shanghaied
US Army Air Force
Second World War
Stornara
Madison Avenue
copywriter
Popular Science

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