Title: The Merchants' War

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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Translations

Translated Serializations

Year	Language	Title
1985^ⓘTranslated by Karl-Ulrich Burgdorf	German	Ehrbare Kaufleute und ein kleiner Krieg auf der Venus
1985^ⓘTranslated by Jean Bonnefoy	French	Les gogos contre-attaquent
1987^ⓘTranslated by Olga Fonseca	Portuguese	A Guerra dos Mercadores
1987^ⓘ Translated by Đorđe Dobrić	Serbian	Rat trgovaca [as by Frederik Pol]
2000^ⓘTranslated 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
The Merchants' War	1984-12-00	Frederik Pohl	St. Martin's Press	0-312-53010-2	$13.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	209	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Izumi Inoue
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. ISO code: DEM in 1948-1999	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
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. ISO code: USD	346	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Jack Woolhiser
Urania #998	1985-06-09	ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini	Mondadori	998	Lit 2,500^?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	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. ISO code: GBP	209	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Alan Craddock
The Merchants' War	1986-03-00	Frederik Pohl	St. Martin's Press	0-312-90240-9	$3.50^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	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
The Merchants' War	1986-08-00	Frederik Pohl	Orbit / Futura	0-7088-8182-3	£2.50^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	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
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
Reklámhadjárat	2001-00-00	Frederik Pohl	N&N Könyvkiadó	963-9229-06-7	Ft 998^?Ft: Hungarian forint. ISO code: HUF	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
Frederik Pohl Audiobook Collection	2024-12-28	Frederik Pohl	MotionAudiobooks		$46.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		audio MP3 DVD^?DVD with mp3-encoded audio tracks	omni

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Reviews

Review by Richard D. Erlich (1985) in Fantasy Review, March 1985
Review [French] by Michel Cossement (1985) in SFère, #21
Review by Tom A. Jones (1985) in Vector 128
Review [French] by Richard D. Nolane (1985) in Fiction, #367
Review by David Langford [as by Dave Langford] (1985) in White Dwarf, October 1985
Review by Kenny Mathieson (1985) in Foundation, #35 Winter 1985/1986, (1986)
Review by Ken Lake (1987) in Paperback Inferno, #65
Review [Serbian] by
Miodrag Milovanović^?Miodrag Milovanovich
(1987) in Alef, #1
Review [French] by Bertrand Bonnet (2008) in Bifrost, #52