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, and nobody who knew anything about it would dream of signing up. But by the time Mitch has finished, they will be queuing to get on board the spaceships.
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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, and nobody who knew anything about it would dream of signing up. But by the time Mitch has finished, they will be queuing to get on board the spaceships.
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Very imaginative. I came to this book because on the DVD commentary for "Futurama" Matt Groening said he'd been influenced by it and by this author in general. I can see how. Nobody's quite a good guy or a bad guy. The future's not particularly better or worse than the present. It's just as exaggerated from our point of view as the early 21st Century would probably seem to somebody from 200 years ago. A corny, clever send-up of class, materialism, relationships, and language. I enjoyed it a lot.