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Blast Books publishes illustrated books on cultural and historical phenomenons—from The Mütter Museum to Mental Hygiene. William Gibson has called our lead title for Spring 2010, Another Science Fiction, "a brilliant tour through the iconography and literature of America's grandest corporate dreamtime, the Space Age."
Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs

Our book was the #1 most popular pictorial attraction on Newsweek.com for 2008

See A Century of Medical Oddities
Newsweek.com
Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race, 1957-1962

"Mad Men meets Flash Gordon."
The New York Times

"Moon Race ads
had the right stuff."

USA Today

"A doozy."
Boing Boing

"Stunning."
Harper's

See author Megan Prelinger
on CBS-TV

CBS

"It took a lot of mad men
to make space flight sexy."

Print Magazine

"Brilliant." —William Gibson

"I wish I had this book when I started Mad Men." —Gay Perello,
Prop Master for Mad Men
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880 - 1930

"This is the most extraordinary book I have ever seen—the perfect coffee table book for all the households where I'd most like to be invited for coffee."
Mary Roach

See the review in:
The New York Times

See the review in:
The New York Times Book Review

Listen to Dissection co-author John Warner on NPR's All Things Considered
Listen to Dissection co-author John Warner on NPR's All Things Considered