Space Merchants, The, by Pohl, Frederik and C.M. Cornbluth

The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Cornbluth often is categorized as a SF masterpiece. It certainly is a very well written, well researched and interesting story, but I have always had a problem attaching that label to it because in the end it just fails to say anything big. It's the story of a sleaze-bag advertising agency in a world of even sleazier advertising executives who learns an important lesson about ecology and the foibles of a dominating government. It was written d[…]

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