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'''Pohl, Frederik, and C. M. Kornbluth. ''The Space Merchants''.''' New York: Ballantine, [1953]. "A condensed version of this novel appeared in ''GALAXY'' magazine under the title Gravy Planet" (June, July, August 1952). [[Category: Fiction]] | '''Pohl, Frederik, and C. M. Kornbluth. ''The Space Merchants''.''' New York: Ballantine, [1953]. "A condensed version of this novel appeared in ''GALAXY'' magazine under the title Gravy Planet" (June, July, August 1952). [[Category: Fiction]] | ||
− | One of the great satires on human greed, pride, and stupidity generally, and capitalist consumption and advertising more particularly. In the reading by J. P. Brennan, SM has at its heart the image of "Chicken Little," an organic thing with mechanism literally superimposed upon it (and a way into it)—an image that works well in an attack on "the text's mechanistic psychology" (see under Literary Criticism, Brennan's "[[The Mechanical Chicken]]," here 107-8). | + | One of the great satires on human greed, pride, and stupidity generally, and capitalist consumption and advertising more particularly. In the reading by J. P. Brennan, SM has at its heart the image of "Chicken Little," an organic thing with mechanism literally superimposed upon it (and a way into it)—an image that works well in an attack on "the text's mechanistic psychology" (see under Literary Criticism, Brennan's "[[The Mechanical Chicken: Psyche and Society in The Space Merchants|The Mechanical Chicken]]," here 107-8). |
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Revision as of 19:39, 7 May 2022
Pohl, Frederik, and C. M. Kornbluth. The Space Merchants. New York: Ballantine, [1953]. "A condensed version of this novel appeared in GALAXY magazine under the title Gravy Planet" (June, July, August 1952).
One of the great satires on human greed, pride, and stupidity generally, and capitalist consumption and advertising more particularly. In the reading by J. P. Brennan, SM has at its heart the image of "Chicken Little," an organic thing with mechanism literally superimposed upon it (and a way into it)—an image that works well in an attack on "the text's mechanistic psychology" (see under Literary Criticism, Brennan's "The Mechanical Chicken," here 107-8).