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From: chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: review, Frederik Pohl's "The Merchants' War"
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 19:21:15 EST
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> 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
> >all governments and every aspect of human behavior.  When a handful of
> 
> Would someone knowledgable care to comment on the relationship between this
> work and Pohl and Kornbluth's classic _The_Space_Merchants_?

I recently read both "The Space Merchants" and "The Merchant's War" when the
SFBC made them available in a 2-in-1 printing. The original, "The Space
Merchants", is very fun, a biting satire of the advertising industry, well
written, and at least as valid as social commentary now as it was when it
was written <mumble> years ago. "The Merchant's War" is a pale attempt to
recreate the magic of the original, and I think Pohl tries too hard to write
biting sarcasm -- the result is plodding and strident. In case it isn't
obvious, I don't like the new book. Go read the original, my boy, and sequel
no more.....

chuq

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