Lesabéndio An Asteroid Novel

"First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart's masterpiece, Lesabendio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubble-weed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. Amid the conveyor-belt highways and lighthouses weaving together the mountains and valleys, a visionary named Lesabâendio hatches a plan to build a 44-mile-high tower and employ architectureto connect the two halves of their double star."--P. [4] of cover.