On listening to X Minus One

[james_davis_nicoll]

OK, just how many Madison Avenue-related SF stories were there back in the 1950s? Am I going find Don Draper hawking cough medicine on Mars?

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[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

There were another roughly 2,038,448,561,345,992,450,124,483,118,593 Science Fiction Versus Madison Avenue stories written between mid-1952 and late 1952.

The Space Merchants and The Tunnel Under The World are the only ones that anyone can still stand, though.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember "Year Day", a Kuttner/Moore short story where selling protection from being bombarded by ads is a lucrative business, as being pretty good. It was published in 1953 though, so maybe it doesn't count.

-- Paul Clarke

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

And fifty years later, people were making money selling spam filters. Prediction successful!