Vance Simonds 31 min read

Huckster Heaven, in Hollywood, fulfills the adman's every dream, Tahitian, Parisian, Afro-Cuban decor, gliding houris, and viands to quell all harsh thoughts of the combative marketplace.

Vance Simonds's 1963 story is a wry psi-powers and social-SF satire of the advertising world. Clever, biting golden-age SF. Read it for a pointed skewering of Madison Avenue excess, where a lavish adman's paradise becomes the setting for a sharp comment on manipulation, emotion, and the selling of desire.

In its time

Published in 1963, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

31 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

George Schelling