The Space Merchants

The Space Merchants | Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth

The Conservationists were fair game, those wild-eyed zealots who pretended modern civilization was in some way ‘plundering‘ our planet. Preposterous stuff. Science is always a step ahead of the failure of natural resources. After all, when real meat got scarce, we had soyaburgers ready. When oil ran low, technology developed the pedicab.
(c1953)

Lindy #Projections This quote is from Projections, an outstanding speculative fiction boxed set of short stories not in the Litsy database: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55420151 4y

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The Space Merchants | Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth

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This was weird... but I liked it. The world is overpopulated, resources exploited, environment ruined, a ruling advertising elite exploits “consumers”.

It is a crazy story of crossings and double-crossings, a satire of consumerism and corporate greed, with an environmentalist bend... a mystery, an adventure, a love story, a business interest war... it is quite unlike anything I have ever read. Slow starting but fun from about 40% in. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sounds really good to me! 6y

Gezemice @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I have had it sitting around for forever, and the library ban brought it to the front. Warning: I almost gave up at the beginning - it is quite boring until there is a big turning point in the story about 40% in. But I figured there had to be more for this to be a science fiction classic... and there was. 6y

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