The Space Merchants, Frederik Pohl & C M Kornbluth, UK pb 1973

This paperback is Frederik Pohl and C M Kornbluth's novel 'The Space Merchants' published by Penguin Books in the UK in 1973. Cover art by David Pelham. Book is in poor condition with spine damage, (see picture). 170 pages. Picture is of actual book.

SYNOPSIS: Time: the near future. Place: Madison Avenue, New York.  An overcrowded world is dominated by a few unscrupulous advertising agencies who have reduced the population to drug- and ad-conditioned consumers. Fowler Schocken Associates, who successfully organised India into a single giant cartel, have a new mission - the development and exploitation of Venus. Mitchell Courtenay, star-class copysmith, is chosen to sell it to potential colonists. But the Consies, a subversive conservation group, and a rival ad agency also want Venus, and Courtenay finds himself in the midst of a deadly struggle.