German writer, critic, and theorist Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915) is considered by some a mad eccentric and by others a visionary political thinker, but his -influence is still felt today. Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!! A Paul Scheerbart Reader is the first extensive collection of Scheerbart’s writings to be published in -English. Along with his influential architectural manifesto Glass Architecture (1914) and his dream of perpetual energy, Perpetual Motion: The Story of an Invention (1910), a selection of his fantastical experiments with the short story form appear here for the first time. Contemporary essays commissioned for this book illuminate -Scheerbart’s importance and the relevence of his ideas in his own time and ours.