a science fiction book from the 50s: US senators represent corporations

[bobbieinok]

anyone know the title???? it was a 'classic,' I think

also everyone works for the corporation....ability to marry, have children depends on your position in the corporation.....if you lose your job, you lose your marriage, your children (can't remember if they're 'disposed of')

[KurtNYC]

1. I dont have that answer but

it reminds me of Rollerball, where the nations have been dissolved and the teams play for major conglomerate monopolies. Eg. "energy" etc.

[Ian David]

2. Sounds like Friday, by Robert A. Heinlein

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/034530988X.01._PIdp-schmooS,TopRight,7,-26_PE10_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg




14 references to corporations in this book:

[bobbieinok]

3. pretty sure author wasn't Heinlein (I'd probably remember, then)

[bigmonkey]

4. Was it The Space Merchants?

by Pohl and Kornbluth?

[SheilaT]

5. I've never read anything quite like that

and I'm a science fiction reader since the 50s, myself. So it's not exactly a "classic", but sounds fascinating nonetheless.

Fred Pohl wrote a book called "The Space Merchants" in 1952 in which advertising is all around and it's not possible to escape it. Quite a prescient book. Is there a chance that's the one you're thinking of?

[bigmonkey]

6. "The ambassador from Texaco is here to see you."

n/t

[Mandate My Ass]

8. Is that the C.M. Kornbluth who wrote The Mindworm?

That's one of my favorite all-time short stories. I'd say at least in the top five anyway.

[bobbieinok]

9. sounds a bit close

[SteveG]

7. Sounds like The Syndic

by C.M. Kornbluth - Corporate America and the Mob become one and the same and rule the U.S.