{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The Space Merchants is a 1952 science fiction novel by American writers Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine as a serial entitled Gravy Planet, the novel was first published as a single volume in 1953, and has sold heavily since. It deals satirically with a hyper-developed consumerism, seen through the eyes of an advertising executive. In 1984, Pohl published a sequel, The Merchants' War. In 2012, it was included in the Library of America omnibus American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953\u20131956. Pohl revised the original novel in 2011 with added material and more contemporary references.\r\n\r\nIt was rated the 24th \"all-time best novel\" in a 1975 Locus poll, jointly with The Martian Chronicles and The War of the Worlds. The novel was also included in David Pringle's list of 100 best science fiction novels."}, "links": [{"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants", "title": "The Space Merchants - Wikipedia", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"url": "https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-00015-6", "title": "Fiction Book Review: The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. ...", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Advertising dystopia: Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth\u2019s The Space Merchants", "url": "https://www.tor.com/2009/06/03/the-evils-of-advertising-frederik-pohl-and-cm-kornbluths-the-space-merchants/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "The best science fiction novel about Madison Ave you'll ever read", "url": "https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-best-science-fiction-novel-about-madison-ave-youll-5880721", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "title": "The Space Merchants", "covers": [8405532, 9254680, 10196856], "subject_places": ["Venus", "Antarctica"], "subjects": ["Science fiction", "consumerism", "overpopulation", "terraformation", "shanghaiing", "fiction", "Fiction, science fiction, general"], "subject_people": ["Mitch Courtenay"], "key": "/works/OL60943W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL23364A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}, {"author": {"key": "/authors/OL458948A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 27, "revision": 27, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-16T00:30:50.205091"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2021-11-20T12:26:56.644016"}}