Cover for Sales Pitch
Short Story

Sales Pitch

1954

About this story

A man exhausted by relentless advertising encounters a robot salesman that refuses to leave him alone. Its determination to demonstrate its usefulness turns the promise of domestic convenience into a nightmare.

Chronology

Work history

  1. no later than Nov 19, 1953

    Composition: no later than Nov 19, 1953

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. Nov 19, 1953

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    Nov 19, 1953

  3. Jan 1954

    First published Jan 1954

    Future Science Fiction