![]() ![]() (Cover above left: 1st edition Ballantine hardcover, May 1953. Praised by many critics as a brilliant satire on consumerism and the advertising industry–among its other virtues–Pohl estimates it has sold around 10 million copies in 25 languages. Great advertising agencies still dominate the world and control all governments and every. ![]() ![]() Kornbluth added a middle section, Pohl finished it up and did the final revisions, but was hard pressed to find a book publisher until he met Ian Ballantine who was looking for titles for his new publishing company. The Merchants War (Space Merchants 2) - Frederik Pohl 5.68 16. Pohl had written a draft, which he then gave to Kornbluth to look over. SF Masterworks 54 by Frederik Pohl and CM Kornbluth (Gollancz, £6.99, 186 pages, paperback, first published 1952, this edition published 10 July 2003.) In 1951, working as a literary agent and with little time to spare for his own fiction, Pohl wrote the first twenty thousand words of what was to become The Space Merchants. It was first serialized in the June, July and August 1952 issues of Galaxy under the title Gravy Planet, then saw print in book form (both hardcover and paperback) with its current title from Ballantine in May of 1953. The CBS Radio Workshop aired “The Space Merchants” Parts 1 & 2 on February 17 & 24, 1957. ![]()
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