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From: geoff@ism780c.UUCP (Geoff Kimbrough)
Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: review, Frederik Pohl's "The Merchants' War"
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 21:05:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 21:05:21 1986
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Keywords: Frederik Pohl, review, "The Merchants' War"
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In article <381@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU> norman@batcomputer.UUCP (Norman Ramsey) writes:
>In article <220@msudoc.UUCP> ctj@msudoc.UUCP (Chris Johnson) writes:
>>Frederik Pohl's "The Merchants' War"
>>Blurb:  Great advertising agencies still dominate the world and control
>
>Would someone knowledgable care to comment on the relationship between this
>work and Pohl and Kornbluth's classic _The_Space_Merchants_?

Ok, TMW is two (two! two! books in one!) books in one binding.  Part One
IS _The Space Merchants_, and part Two is the sequel.  I haven't seen
the sequel (sorry, the (sub)title escapes me) published separately.
Maybe the publisher thought that understanding the sequel depended too much
on having read TSM, or maybe TSM was out of print.  The sequel didn't seem
*to*me* (hint: opinion) to be as good as TSM, but I can still recommend it.
(I've been recommending _The_Space_Merchants_ for years as required
reading for anyone considering a career in marketing.)

Geoffrey Kimbrough -- No one in Particular
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