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Title: The Merchants' War Title Record # 11825
Author: Frederik Pohl
Date: 1984-12-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Space Merchants
Series Number: 2
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: In the near future, when a dystopian earth is completely controlled by marketing and advertising companies but the human colony on Venus takes up the completely opposite position, a loyal advertising executive stumbles upon a hidden plot to inflame the existing cold war between the two.
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Other Titles

Translations Translated Serializations
Year Language Title
1985Translated by Karl-Ulrich Burgdorf
German Ehrbare Kaufleute und ein kleiner Krieg auf der Venus
1985Translated by Jean Bonnefoy
French Les gogos contre-attaquent
1987Translated by Olga Fonseca
Portuguese A Guerra dos Mercadores
1987
  • Translated by Đorđe Dobrić
Serbian Rat trgovaca [as by Frederik Pol]
2000Translated by Pék Zoltán
Hungarian Reklámhadjárat
Year Language Title
1985 Italian Gli antimercanti dello spazio (Complete Novel)

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Merchants' War 1984-12-00 Frederik Pohl St. Martin's Press 0-312-53010-2
$13.95?$: US dollar
209
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Izumi Inoue Checkmark
Ehrbare Kaufleute und ein kleiner Krieg auf der Venus 1985-00-00 Frederik Pohl
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Bestseller
#22085)
3-404-22085-4
DM 8.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
250+
[1]
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Alan Gutierrez Checkmark
Les gogos contre-attaquent 1985-02-00 Frederik Pohl
Denoël?Denoel
(
Présence du Futur?Presence du Futur
#396)
2-207-30396-9   246
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel
François Allot?Francois Allot
 
Venus, Inc. 1985-06-00 C. M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl Nelson Doubleday / SFBC 01272
$4.98?$: US dollar
346
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni Jack Woolhiser Checkmark
Urania #998 1985-06-09 ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini Mondadori 998
Lit 2,500?Lit: Italian lira
174
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Karel Thole  
The Merchants' War 1985-08-00 Frederik Pohl Gollancz 0-575-03691-5
£8.95?£: UK pound
209
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Alan Craddock Checkmark
The Merchants' War 1986-03-00 Frederik Pohl St. Martin's Press 0-312-90240-9
$3.50?$: US dollar
296
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Checkmark
The Merchants' War 1986-08-00 Frederik Pohl Orbit / Futura 0-7088-8182-3
£2.50?£: UK pound
209
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Angus McKie Checkmark
A Guerra dos Mercadores 1987-00-00 Frederik Pohl
Publicações Europa-América?Publicacoes Europa-America
(Livros de Bolso, série Ficção Científica #138)
    227
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Tim White  
Rat trgovaca 1987-00-00 Frederik Pol Polaris Beograd (SF biblioteka Polaris)     164
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel Angus McKie Checkmark
Reklámhadjárat 2001-00-00 Frederik Pohl N&N Könyvkiadó 963-9229-06-7
Ft 998?Ft: Hungarian forint
310
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel András Asztalos Checkmark
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