Read by Michael Scherer

In a vastly overpopulated world, businesses have taken the place of
governments and now hold all political power. States exist merely to
ensure the survival of huge trans-national corporations. Advertising
has become hugely aggressive and by far the best-paid profession.
Through advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking
that the quality of life is improved by all the products placed on
the market. However, the most basic elements are incredibly scarce,
including water and fuel. The planet Venus has just been visited and
judged fit for human settlement, despite its inhospitable surface and
climate; the colonists would have to endure a harsh climate for many
generations until the planet could be terraformed.

The protagonist, Mitch Courtenay, is a star-class copywriter in
the Fowler Schocken advertising agency who has been assigned the
ad campaign which would attract colonists to Venus. But a lot more
is happening than he knows about. It soon becomes a tale of mystery
and intrigue, in which many of the characters are not what they seem.

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