MEGAN PRELINGER / Another Science Fiction
Launch Party and A
Talk with Visuals:
MEGAN PRELINGER
Another Science
Fiction:
Advertising the Space
Race 1957 – 1962
“Another Science Fiction is a brilliant tour through the iconography
and literature of
Uniquely insightful and entertaining, Megan Prelinger’s hybrid of eye candy and brain food showcases nearly 200 spectacular images from the Mad Men era of space advertising, providing a remarkable look into our collective history of spaceflight.
Megan Prelinger is a historian and a lifelong collector of space history ephemera and science fiction literature. She is co-founder and architect of information design of the Prelinger Library, a private research library open to the publics, which houses more than forty thousand books and other print artifacts on North American regional and land use history, media and cultural studies, and technology, including a space history collection.
“I wish I had this book when I started Mad Men. This is exactly what I look for, a concise visual-historical reference of mid-century advertising. Prelinger has uniquelyand beautifully taken us on a trip back to space.” – Gay Perello, prop master for Mad Men
- Street:
- The Booksmith
- Additional:
- 1644 Haight Street
- City:
- San Francisco ,
- Province:
- California
- Postal Code:
- 94117
- Country:
- United States
