Space Merchants | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 17/05/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants


00:01:05 1 Plot summary
00:03:53 2 Publication and reception
00:04:04 2.1 Origins
00:06:41 2.2 Publication
00:09:07 2.3 Critical reception
00:12:31 2.4 Adaptations



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The Space Merchants is a 1952 science fiction novel by American writers Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine as a serial entitled Gravy Planet, the novel was first published as a single volume in 1953, and has sold heavily since. It deals satirically with a hyper-developed consumerism, seen through the eyes of an advertising executive. In 1984, Pohl published a sequel, The Merchants' War. In 2012, it was included in the Library of America omnibus American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956. Pohl revised the original novel in 2011 with added material and more contemporary references.