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The Merchants' War is a 1984 satirical science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. Set in a near future commercial dystopian interplanetary society, the novel was a sequel to The Space Merchants , and was originally co-published with it as Venus, Inc. Pohl's collaborator in the first novel, C.M. Kornbluth , died in 1958 ...
The witty sequel to Frederik Pohl's & C. M. Kornbluth's legendary science fiction classic The Space Merchants, written 30 years later. Great advertising agencies still dominate the world and control all governments and every aspect of human behavior.
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Jul 12, 2021 · A group of rebels on Venus reject the control of the powerful advertising agencies and strive to prevent becoming warped by consumerism. Sequel to: The space merchants / by Frederik Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth. Access-restricted-item.
The Merchants' War. Frederik Pohl. St. Martin's Press, 1986 - Fiction - 296 pages. A dystopian future, where unrestrained growth has ruined the Earth, and produced a two-tiered world with an...
- Frederik Pohl
- St. Martin's Press, 1986
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Jan 1, 1986 · Frederik Pohl. THE MERCHANTS' WAR Paperback – January 1, 1986. by Frederik Pohl (Author) 4.2 13 ratings. See all formats and editions. The great Account Executives of Earth will stop at nothing--not even war--to crush the handful of rebels on Venus who oppose their all-encompassing domination. Report an issue with this product or seller.
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Jan 1, 1984 · Merchants War is chalked full of wonderful satire, the same way in which Space Merchant's started but never finished. The satirical momentum never lets up and includes political, religious, advertisement, cultural and military satire wrapped up in a cozy sci-fi blanket.
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- Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl was born in New York City on November 26, 1919. More interested in writing than in school, he dropped out of high school in his senior year and took a job with a publishing company.
