Metroplis
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
SF
ISBN-10
1914990277
ISBN-13
9781914990274
Publisher
Jantar Publishing Ltd
Imprint
Jantar Publishing Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 25th, 2026
Print length
100 Pages
Weight
30 grams
Product Classification:
Classic science fiction
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In the future, wealthy industrialists and their top employees reign over the city of Metropolis from colossal skyscrapers, while underground-dwelling workers toil to operate the great machines that power it.
Written at the beginning of the last century and set in 2026, 'Metropolis' by Thea von Harbou was the novel that inspired the cult silent SF Movie of the same name, directed by her future husband, Fritz Lang. The novel is more complex and nuanced than the movie: The city of the future is two cities: one occupied by its hedonistic ruling class and that of a much larger segregated subculture, toilers in a mechanised underworld, labouring to provide the rich with their pleasures. When a charismatic leader arises, she seeks a savior to unite the disparate social orders. "Between the brain that plans and the hands that build," she declares, "there must be a mediator-the heart." Does this sound familiar?
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