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Description

It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to colonise Venus. It's a hellhole,... read more

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First Sentence

As I dressed that morning I ran over in my mind the long list of statistics, evasions, and exaggerations that they would expect in my report.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Frederik Pohl (Author)
  2. C. M. Kornbluth (Author)
 

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