{"product_id":"mercaderes-del-espacio-tentaculo","title":"Space Merchants","description":"\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eOur Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong before \u003ci\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eCyberpunk\u003c\/i\u003e, Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth wrote the playbook. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Space Merchants\u003c\/i\u003e is the ultimate advertising dystopia\u003c\/strong\u003e, a satire so brilliant and brazen it's frightening how accurate it was in 1952.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this future, \u003cstrong\u003ethe world is not ruled by politicians or dictators, but by two large rival advertising agencies\u003c\/strong\u003e. The planet's resources are depleted, water is a luxury, and citizens are addicted consumers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe follow Mitch Courtenay, a star copywriter, an Alpha-class copy director. \u003cstrong\u003eHe's a shark in a world of sharks.\u003c\/strong\u003e But when he's assigned the biggest campaign in history (selling the colonization of Venus to the masses), everything goes wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts prose is agile, funny, and ruthless. It's a fundamental, hilarious, and terrifying science fiction novel that \u003cstrong\u003ewill make you look at the ads on your phone with different eyes.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Details\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn an overpopulated world dominated by advertising, star copywriter Mitchell Courtenay lives at the top of the pyramid. As \"copydirector\" of the Fowler Schocken agency, his job is to create the desire to consume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis most ambitious project: the colonization of Venus. The only problem is that the planet is an uninhabitable hell. His job is to make it look like paradise, but the competing agency, Taunton, won't make it easy for him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuddenly, Mitch is kidnapped, stripped of his identity, and cast to the bottom of society. Now he is an anonymous consumer who must fight to survive in the brutal world he himself helped create, while trying to unmask a conspiracy and flee from the dreaded \"consers,\" terrorists fighting against consumerism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrederik Pohl (1919-2013) and Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923-1958) were a legendary duo of the Golden Age of science fiction. Pohl was a central figure in the genre as a writer, editor, and agent, awarded multiple Hugo and Nebula prizes. Kornbluth was a prodigious talent and a scathing social critic, whose career was tragically short. Together they wrote several satirical novels that became classics, with \u003ci\u003eThe Space Merchants\u003c\/i\u003e being their most celebrated and acclaimed work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTechnical Details\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Minotauro\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788445006795\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Minotauro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55195163623750,"sku":"Est4\/Bal4\/Arnoia","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0797\/5590\/3302\/files\/MercaderesdelespacioA.webp?v=1762276270","url":"https:\/\/libreriacasadrojan.com\/en\/products\/mercaderes-del-espacio-tentaculo","provider":"Librería Casa Drojan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}