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"I think that self-limitation is the major limiting factor for most people in the world."
- Frank Herbert

Orbiting Casino Advertising Sign  
  The mightiest billboard in the Solar System!  

This is the sign for the New Moon orbiting casino, an entirely artificial satellite.

But the rising sign, as it had been designed to do, held his eyes. A vast circle of scarlet stars came up into the greenish desert dusk. They spun giddily, came and went, changed suddenly to a lurid yellow. Then garish blue-and-orange letters flashed a legend:

Tired, Mister? Bored, Sister? Then come with me—The disk became a red-framed animated picture of a slender girl in white, tripping up the gangway of a New Moon liner. She turned, and the gay invitation of her smile changed into burning words: Out in the New Moon, just ask for what you want. Caspar Hannas has it for you.

“Anything.” Jay Kalam smiled grimly. “Even the System’s foremost criminals.”

Find health at our sanatoria! flamed the writing in the sky. Sport in our gravity-free games! Recreation in our clubs and theatres! Knowledge in our museums and observatories. Thrills, and beauty— everywhere! Fortune, if you’re lucky, in our gaming salons! Even oblivion if you desire it, at our Clinic of Euthanasia!

Technovelgy from One Against The Legion, by Jack Williamson.
Published by Astounding in 1939
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Compare to fixed star advertising from Pi in the Sky (1945) by Frederic Brown, permanent skywriting from Soap Opera (1953) by Alan Nelson and Atmospheric Advertising from In the Year 2889 (1889) by Jules Verne.

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