(Bought from Amazon) Recommended on a Sci-Fi Literature course on Amazon Prime. It sounded interesting. Somewhat dated but still relevant futuristic adventure where corporations and advertising have taken over all forms of government. The world is divided into execs who sell shit and consumers who mindlessly buy it. Ad exec Mitch MacCauley is charged with snookering the hoi polloi into signing up to colonize the hostile environment of Venus. Fascinating dystopian futurescape devolves into a conventional thriller with our hero triumphing in the end, after numerous assassination attempts and double crosses, but it's not clear if he has learned a lesson about the evils of rampant capitalism. Conversationists are cast as "commies" or evil fanatics. The corporations have drained the planet dry so consumers have to take pedicabs instead of autos. But wait a minute, we can still board rockets to distant cities, arriving within minutes and to the moon within hours. I liked the last scenes where the president is powerless figurehead and Congress is run by the businessmen. A fast, fun read.
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