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The Space Merchants

novel by Pohl and Kornbluth

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discussed in biography of Pohl

  • In Frederik Pohl

    His most famous work, The Space Merchants (1953), was written in collaboration with Kornbluth. It tells the story of Mitchell Courtenay, a “copysmith star class” for a powerful advertising agency who is made head of a project to colonize Venus in order to create consumers in space. This chilling…

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