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Advertising dystopia: Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants
Advertising dystopia: Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants
The Space Merchants is a short sharp book the way they used to make them. It’s a future that extrapolates the advertising techniques of the early fifties and makes a nightmare future out of them. It’s pointed and satirical, but it’s kind of a one note joke—extending how advertising is ...
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