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Search the sky /​ Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth

by Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth

In a future world governed by corporate interests, a copywriter is assigned to create a campaign promoting the colonisation of Venus.

Accession 8937 ISBN 0140026339 Publisher Penguin
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