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The Space Merchants

Frederik Pohl

In this classic send-up of American commercialism, a near-future earth is resource-depleted but callously ruled by advertising, splitting society between all-powerful ad agencies & exploited consumers. Mitchell Courtenay is a glib ad-exec who has just landed the assignment of a lifetime: enticing co...

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The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

The coffee-flavored Soylent product, 'Coffeist', was named after a dangerously habit-forming drink from a 1952 science fiction novel, 'The Space Merchants'.

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Coffeist, after a dangerously habit-forming drink from a 1952 sci-fi novel, The Space Merchants.

— Episode: 390 - Rob Rhinehart and Soylent

Episode: 390 - Rob Rhinehart and Soylent

The coffee-flavored Soylent product, 'Coffeist', was named after a dangerously habit-forming drink from a 1952 science fiction novel, 'The Space Merchants'.

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Coffeist, after a dangerously habit-forming drink from a 1952 sci-fi novel, The Space Merchants.

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