The Junkmakers: Salvaging Hope: A Novel of Redemption in a Disposable World

by Albert Teichner

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40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 28, 2014

Reviews

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

🖊 My review: I understood this to be a strong satire on gluttonous consumerism – buy for the sake of having “stuff” under the direct supervision of the government entity. It is a swell short science fiction story from the Golden Age of Science Fiction that is well-written.
✔️Published in Worlds of if Science Fiction - July 1961.
🤔 My rating 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
🟣 Media form on Kindle version.
🟢 Media form found on Project Gutenberg.
🔲 Excerpts of note:

🪐 The next morning everyone could return to work, renewed by the knowledge that the Festival of Acute Shortages would be with them for months.

🪐 He felt as exhilarated as he did in the months after High Holy Day. "I'm down to under ten hours labor a week.

🪐 Martial music roared from loudspeakers, interrupted by the mellifluous boom of a merchandising announcer: "New product! Better models! One hundred years of High Holy Days! New! New! NEW!" "Destroy!" came the returning shout. "Make work! Work! Work!"

🪐 You can't believe anything they say any more. The people decide and the government will have to listen,

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[Jim Davis · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't finish. There was a message somewhere in here about conspicuous consumption but I didn't find it interesting enough to dig it out.

[Aviar Savijon · Rating 5 out of 5]

simply stunning a great read. I loved it!

[DOUGLAS J BERRY · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mass consumerism.

Albert teichner was a minor author who wrote less than ten stories. This one is about mass consumerism and planned obsolescence, seems a little crazy.

[Forked Radish · Rating 4 out of 5]

A conspicuous consumption cum planned obsolescence cum potlach parody i.e. buy new to fuel the economy. But it's preaching to the choir. . . . "We'll spread it through the net." —in 1961!

[Forked Radish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating and review for “The Wellsprings of Space” from “Amazing Stories” Oct., 1961. Time is the ultimate currency. Note: the preceding was my own original thought but it had already been posted by Elon Musk on X, Sept. 3, 2021. Now I feel stupid! I must read more. . . I must read more!