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BookJohn Brunner - The Squares Of The City - Ballantine Books - Paperback - USA (1965)
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| ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | penguin books p/b first printing, first uk edition cover art by franco grignani (unsigned, credited on back cover (for ''cover design'')) cover price 6/- 30p, R0.75 south africa, $1.00 australia, $0.85 new zealand 320pp. (check) including titles, indicia etc, end pp. including author's note (nf) & ''the pieces'' (annotated dramatis personae) (nf) john brunner; advertising | |
| ppint. 2nd Feb 2024 | one of sixteen covers by grignani commissioned for penguin books by art director, david pelham. | |
| Magic Marmalade 30th Nov 2017 | Well, subliminal advertisements will soon be joined in the pantheon of pseudo-scientific tea-leaf reader theories by the recently enobled: "Behavioural Economics", and it's attendant nonsense: "Nudge theory" (Count me as evidence of Counter-behavioural economics, and anti-nudger! - whatever you advertise, I will make a point of not buying it!) Economics is basically astrology anyway... and look where it's gotten us. (My apologies to anyone who has a degree in economics, or calls themselves an economist... you have my sympathies :) | |
| ppint. 29th Nov 2017 | Reviewthe sfnal nature of "squares" is largely based upon an extrapolation of the research into and claims made for the effectiveness of subliminal advertisements and propaganda, that have proved to be far less effective in reality than was claimed for them at the time. this aside, the novel is a sociological story of political "class warfare" struggle and of the relationships between the characters cutting across their political beliefs, complicating their lives both socially, and corrupting their effectiveness as political reformers, radicals and revolutionaries (or otherwise) - themes john was to return to and develop further over the following decades in his major novels. it is most famous now for john's having based its plot structure upon the 7/2/1892 world championship rematch, steinitz-chigorin chess game in havana, cuba, recorded (notated) & replayed step-by-step at chessgames.com. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review? | |
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