Penguin paperback, 1979 printing. Something of a minor sf classic, by the heralded team of Pohl and Kornbluth. First serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction, October and November 1957. The Earth has been torn away from the Sun, kidnapped by a runaway planet , whose inhabitants - enigmatic, utterly alien Pyramids - have their own plans for Earth's resources. And humankind, depending for warmth on a constantly renewed but woefully inadequate Moon, wracked by hunger and ruled by a slavish conformity to tradition, is dying out. But there are those who defy convention and refuse to give in. Feared and persecuted by the ordinary citizens, these 'Wolves' are preparing to fight back against the Pyramids.

Wolfbane

Science Fiction & Fantasy

frederik-pohl

C.M. Kornbluth

Science Fiction

Penguin??Books

This is the second British paperback printing from 1974. This satirical science fiction novel was first published in 1955. Whereas in the authors' earlier novel "The Space Merchants," the world was ruled by advertising agencies, in this novel corporate lawyers have gained a stranglehold on the world.

Gladiator-at-Law

Pan Books

In a vastly overpopulated near-future world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold all political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge transnational corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and boasts some of the world’s most powerful executives.\nThrough advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking that all the products on the market improve the quality of life. However, the most basic elements are incredibly scarce, including water and fuel.\nThe planet Venus has just been visited and judged fit for human settlement, despite its inhospitable surface and climate; colonists would have to endure a harsh climate for many generations until the planet could be terraformed.\nMitch Courtenay is a star-class copywriter in the Fowler Schocken advertising agency and has been assigned the ad campaign that would attract colonists to Venus, but a lot more is happening than he knows about. Mitch is soon thrown into a world of danger, mystery, and intrigue, where the people in his life are never quite what they seem, and his loyalties and core beliefs will be put to the test.

The Space Merchants

Literature & Fiction

Frederick Pohl

Contemporary

Ballantine Books

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel, “Gladiator at Law,” is written by two of the best science fiction writers of all time, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth. G-M-L Homes, manufacturers of bubble houses, the greatest advance in the history of architecture, had become the biggest and most powerful corporation in the history of commerce. Unfortunately, power, greed, and rampant criminal activity had taken over corporate principals. Charles Mundin, just a criminal lawyer, had unwittingly been pulled into the thick of things, when Norma Lavin—a very beautiful client of his—had been kidnapped by corporate operatives. With grim resolve Mundin, along with the help of a shrewd accomplice, Harry Ryan, laid the plans to get the girl back and expose the massive corruption of a giant corporation. But never had there been a more one-sided battle—a handful of nobodies, armed only with ingenuity and audacity, against the greatest concentration of financial and economic power in all history! The stakes, though, were larger than money or influence; they were the fulfillment of a dead man’s dream! The second novel is Paul W. Fairman’s great tale, “The Jack of Planets.” It was something that the bigwigs at the U. S. Space program couldn’t seem to figure out. Over the past twenty years two different interplanetary flights, Voyager-One and Voyager-Two, had blasted off for Mars. It was assumed they had landed there, successfully, each with a four-person crew. But after each ship had arced toward the planet’s surface…nothing. They had never been heard from again. No communications, no distress calls, not a peep. Both missions were eventually written off as failures. However, now the space program was poised for another try: This time the equipment was newer, more durable, and the crew more thoroughly trained. But all the training in the world would do no good against a Martian landscape fraught with peril and not one, but two races of creatures bound and determined to make sure Earth’s explorers never saw home again.

Gladiator-At-Law

Search the Sky

Pohl,Frederik

Literary

The Earth has been torn away from the Sun, kidnapped by a runaway planet , whose inhabitants - enigmatic, utterly alien Pyramids - have their own plans for Earth's resources. And humankind, depending for warmth on a constantly renewed but woefully inadequate Moon, wracked by hunger and ruled by a slavish conformity to tradition, is dying out. But there are those who defy convention and refuse to give in. Feared and persecuted by the ordinary citizens, these 'Wolves' are preparing to fight back against the Pyramids.

1st paperback edition of 1976 Science Fiction Book Club hardcover original. 1977 Locus Poll Award, Best Author Collection (Place: 11). Introduction by Frederik Pohl. Contents: "The Little Black Bag," 1950 Retro Hugo Award; "The Marching Morons," Science Fiction Hall of Fame (SF Writers of America); "The Only Thing We Learn," "The Adventurer," "The Luckiest Man in Denv," "The Silly Season," "The Remorseful," "Gomez," "The Advent on Channel 12," "The Last Man Left in the Bar," "The Mindworm," "With These Hands," "Shark Ship," "Friend to Man," "The Altar at Midnight," "Dominoes," "Two Dooms." Includes introduction by Frederik Pohl.

The Best of C. M. Kornbluth

United States

A novel of a future age when organized crime legalizes itself -- and turns America into a utopia.

The Syndic

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Avon/Books

A collection of futuristic visions in which robots become the ally, heir, and enemy of humankind represents the works of noted science fiction writers--including Frederik Pohl, Philip K. Dick, Robert Sheckley, and Asimov himself

Robots - Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #9

DAVID BRIN

ROBERT SHECKLEY

Clifford D.Simak

George H. Smith

Harry Slesar

Thomas Easton

Signet

Thrillers & Suspense

Tor Books

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