Friday 18 March 2011

fig 492: Salesman, Himalian Timeshare Inc.


The life of a travelling salesman has never been easy, but is more arduous still when there's a distance of several thousand miles between each slamming door. Robots were frequently employed as travelling salesmen in more remote regions, and their task was a thankless one; this thirty-first century model has the rather dispiriting job of trying to sell luxurious timeshare apartments on the less-than-aspirational Himalia Group- four grey, frozen lumps of rock orbiting Jupiter.

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