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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 public, 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. She is also a naturalist and rehabilitator of aquatic avian species. She lives and works in San Francisco.

On May 25, 2010--the 49th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's speech proclaiming America's commitment to "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth"--Blast Books will publish an illustrated book like no other: Megan Prelinger's Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race, 1957-1962.

This "stupendous" (Jonathan Lethem) volume showcases nearly 200 spectacular images from the Mad Men era of space advertising and provides a "fascinating entrée into the rich history of spaceflight" (Roger D. Launius, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution).
Boldly entertaining and uniquely insightful, this hybrid of eye candy and brain food is winning remarkable advance accolades from the worlds of space, style, and science fiction. Adding his voice to praise from William Gibson, Gay Perello, Jonathan Lethem, and Roger D. Launius is Fred Ordway, former member of the Wernher von Braun rocket team and consultant to Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey : "To the author of this remarkable work go well-deserved laurels for rescuing rocket/space ad artwork from virtual obscurity. Megan Prelinger's book is
a treasure that should find a worldwide readership of space historians, lovers of space art, and all who seek to understand the evolution of humanity's transition to a face sparing species."