io9 looks at product-placement in science fiction. They're talking about movies and TV. But my favorite example is in a book, Citizen of the Galaxy, by Robert A. Heinlein, where a crewmember of a starship centuries in our future goes to a country fair on a faraway planet, where he is served a beverage that the salesman swears is made using the ancient, legendary recipe for Coca-Cola.
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"The Demolished Man." Alfred Bester. It's been a couple decades since I read it last, but one major theme is how advertising insinuates itself into everything.
The films "Bladerunner" (thumbs up) and "Minority Report" (thumbs down) also...
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