Title: Captive Audience

Title: Captive Audience Title Record # 56704
Author: Ann Warren Griffith
Date: 1953-08-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Synopsis: In a near future there's no way to escape advertising: consumer goods come with the ability to advertise and demand their use

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1953^ⓘTranslated by an uncredited translator.	French	Auditions forcées à perpétuité^?Auditions forcees a perpetuite
1963	Swedish	Fängslad lyssnarskara

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1953	1953-08-00	ed. Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas	Fantasy House, Inc.		$0.35^?$: US dollar	132	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Jack Coggins
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction [UK], December 1953	1953-12-00	ed. uncredited	Mellifont Press Ltd.		1/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	132	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Jack Coggins
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Third Series	1954-02-18	ed. Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas	Doubleday		$3.25^?$: US dollar	252	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Chesley Bonestell
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Third Series	1954-08-00	ed. Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas	Doubleday / SFBC		$1.15^?$: US dollar	252	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Chesley Bonestell
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Third Series	1960-02-15	ed. Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas	Ace Books	D-422	$0.35^?$: US dollar	256	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Ed Emshwiller
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Third Series	1968-00-00	ed. Anthony Boucher, J. Francis McComas	Ace Books	G-712	$0.50^?$: US dollar	256	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Ed Emshwiller
Tomorrow, Inc.: SF Stories About Big Business	1976-01-01	ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander	Taplinger	0-8008-7746-2	$9.95^?$: US dollar	256	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Tomorrow, Inc.	1977-03-00	ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander	Robson Books	0-903895-97-8	£3.75^?£: UK pound	256	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Science Fiction by Women (1953-1957)	2022-01-00	ed. uncredited	Journey Press	978-1-951320-18-8	$16.99^?$: US dollar	x+ 294	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Frank Kelly Freas
Science Fiction by Women (1953-1957)	2022-02-28	ed. uncredited	Journey Press	978-1-951320-19-5	$5.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Frank Kelly Freas

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Review by Andi Dukleth (2022) in Science Fiction by Women (1953-1957) , reprinted in:
Science Fiction by Women (1953-1957) (2022)