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"How would you like to live in a future world where Congress is made up of senators from large orporations? Mitch Courtenay, ace copywirter for Copysmith StarClass is given the job of convincing people that they ought to emigrate to Venus."--Book jacket.
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Classical in form, cool, unpretentious and raw.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- effortlessdemanding
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- First published
- 1920
- Pages
- 165
- Publisher
- LibriVox, Standard Ebooks, e-artnow
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781548593803
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Frederik Pohl, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father held a number of jobs, and his family moved many times in his childhood before settling in Brooklyn when he was about seven. He attended Brooklyn Tech high school, but dropped out and took a job to help support his family. As a teen, he founded the New York science fiction writer's group The Futurians. His first publication, a poem, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1937, when he was 18 years old. In 1936, he joined the Young Communist League and became President of the Brooklyn branch, but he left it in 1939 after Stalin-Hitler pact. In 1939, at the age of 21, he was editor of both Super Science Stories and Astonishing Stories, and
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