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Bezig met laden... The Space Merchants (S.F. MASTERWORKS) (origineel 1953; editie 2003)door Frederik Pohl (Auteur), Cyril M. Kornbluth (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkDe magnaten van de ruimte door Frederik Pohl (1953)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I really like Pohl and admire some of his work. I had head so many good things about this book I had to have it. Now that I've read it I am less enthusiastic. It is a OK SF book and I'm sure it was well ahead of it's time in the 1950s. His "Gateway" books are better. ( ) This possibly the ur-text for advertising/consumer-driven dystopian futures. It's a shame that the story isn't told all that well. It's difficult to determine, at times, whether the authors had planned the entire thing out from the start, or just started making things up every time they got bored. To be fair, there are no glaring plotholes, and the story is satisfyingly concluded. It just feels a bit slapdash, like a cheap crime novel from the same period. Genre writing, eh? geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: In a vastly overpopulated near-future world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold all political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge transnational corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and boasts some of the world's most powerful executives. Through advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking that all the products on the market improve the quality of life. However, the most basic elements are incredibly scarce, including water and fuel. The planet Venus has just been visited and judged fit for human settlement, despite its inhospitable surface and climate; colonists would have to endure a harsh climate for many generations until the planet could be terraformed. Mitch Courtenay is a star-class copywriter in the Fowler Schocken advertising agency and has been assigned the ad campaign that would attract colonists to Venus, but a lot more is happening than he knows about. Mitch is soon thrown into a world of danger, mystery, and intrigue, where the people in his life are never quite what they seem, and his loyalties and core beliefs will be put to the test. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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