![]() ![]() In a cutthroat world that would sell lead paint to children, Courtenay must out-fox, out-scam & out-run his enemies. His suspects include everyone from his former co-workers to rival agencies & a rabid conservationist group called the Consies-even an astronaut out for his wife's affections. Rather than serve out a 5-year contract as a menial laborer, he skillfully connives his way back up the social chain to learn who wanted him dead. Then his cushy existence is stolen outright when his ID tattoo is altered to the status of a lowly consumer. No one was better at convincing consumers to stake their futures on a hellhole than Mitch Courtenay.īut Mitch no sooner dusts the confetti of victory from his shoulders when he discovers that his wife wants to end their trial marriage & that someone is out to kill him. So what if the atmosphere reeks of formaldehyde, the ambient temperature boils water & the winds reach 500 mph? Here was a bright new tomorrow to sell. ![]() ![]() ![]() An overcrowded world is dominated by a few unscrupulous advertising agencies who have reduced the population to drug and ad-conditioned consumers. Mitchell Courtenay is a glib ad-exec who has just landed the assignment of a lifetime: enticing consumers to colonize Venus. The Space Merchants Space Merchants 1 / 2 » by Frederik Pohl, C. In this classic send-up of American commercialism, a near-future earth is resource-depleted but callously ruled by advertising, splitting society between all-powerful ad agencies & exploited consumers. ![]()
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