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.

The Space Merchants

Literature & Fiction

Pohl,Frederik

Kornbluth, C.M.

Contemporary

St.Martin's Press

Mitchell Courtenay, an advertising copywriter of the future is assigned to sway public support for the American colonization of Venus

The Marching Morons

Short Stories & Anthologies

Ballantine (303 K)

The Syndic

Literary

Avon/Books

Bantam Books, 1977. Mass market paperback. This novel was first published in 1954. An enjoyable early contribution to the "absurd-society" variety of sf.

Search the Sky

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

BANTAM BOOKS

After losing his job with the Company, Norvell Bligh begins to realize how it is controlling the world, and decides to oganize a resistance movement

Gladiator at Law

Baen

AVON.

Not This August

Defeated in battle, the United States is forced to surrender to the armies of China and the Soviet Union

Tor Books

Genre Fiction

Lightyear Pr

Syndic versus Mob! The Syndic operated as a sort of gigantic protective league in what had once been the states east of the Mississippi. Here was a totally hedonistic society?moral inhibitions had gone the way of the horse. (Polo was played in jeeps with 50-calibre machine guns.) The hopelessly corrupt old North American government had been driven literaly into the sea, but make occassional forays onto the mainland from bases on the coastal fringes of a Europe that had returned to the Dark Ages.... West of the Mississippi was Mob territory, a society whose entire system of values was totally opposed to the Syndic. Here morality ruled with an iron hand. When a wave of assassinations broke out in New Your, it was clealy time to take action against the Mob!

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

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