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Lesabéndio : an asteroid novel / Paul Scheerbart ; translated by Christina Svendsen.
Van Pelt Library PT2638.E43 L413 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scheerbart, Paul, 1863-1915.
- Standardized Title:
- Lesabéndio. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Outer space.
- Outer space--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Utopian fiction.
- Science fiction, German.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Wakefield Press ; New York, NY : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English translation of: Lesabéndio : ein asteroïden-Roman.
- Summary:
- "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 Lesabéndio hatches a plan to build a 44-mile-high tower and employ architecture to connect the two halves of their double star."--P. [4] of cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780984115594
- 0984115595
- OCLC:
- 826913122
- Publisher Number:
- 99951828107
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