The/The Merchants’ War Space Merchants (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: C. M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—extrapolatory
- Time of Work: An unspecified time in the future
- Setting: Various locations on Earth, the Moon, and Venus
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Substance abuse, Drug addiction or addicts, Earth, Moon or moons, Venus, Advertising, Propaganda
- Locales: Earth, Moon, Venus
The Plot
One of many collaborations between Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, The Space Merchants was also Pohl’s return to writing after working as a literary agent. The novel has an interesting textual history. Written under the title Fall Campaign, it was serialized as “Gravy Planet” in Galaxy magazine, whose editor, H. L. Gold, thought that the ending was incomplete and demanded that Pohl and Kornbluth produce an additional three chapters to show what happens to the colonizers after they reach Venus. When the novel was published in book form,...
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