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From: wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert)
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Subject: Re: review, Frederik Pohl's "The Merchants' War"
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In article <220@msudoc.UUCP>, ctj@msudoc.UUCP (Chris Johnson) writes:
> ==============Food for the Line Eater================
> 
> Frederik Pohl's "The Merchants' War"
> 
> Opinion:  Frederik Pohl has written a book which I feel ranks with
> Golivers Travel's.  The satire is very strong but presented in a manor
> calculated to entertain.  The story flows well without ever becoming
> bogged down.  Even though you KNOW, that the author is preaching at you,
> it never seems to become overbaring.
> 
> The hero of this little war is quite believable as he makes his way from
> an "starclass copysmith" to human.  The path is not easy but the trials
> Tarb encounters never quite destroy him.  Some of the wonderful things
> in this world of tommorrow (today?:_) which Tarb must deal with include:
> Being adicted to Mokie (aka Coke) via a new advertising methods;
> Joining the army to help "civilize" the aborigine tribes;  And dealing
> with "Veenies" patriats who have a hard time understanding advertisments
> at all.
> 
> Everything considered, I would recomend "The Merchants' War" to anyone
> who has ever had to watch thirty min. of commercials for twenty min. of
> a good movie on the reruns.
> 
Apparently you have never read much Pohl (or more correctly Pohl and Kornbluth)
as this is the sequel to "Space Merchants" written over 20 years ago.  Why it
took so long, I do not know.  Since it has been quite a long time since I
read Space Merchants, I do not know how much of SM's plot carried over to
the new book.

Back to writing lists of books.....

--Bill--