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Metropolis by Thea von Harbou

Metropolis

Thea von Harbou

Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · March 23, 2021

A Science Fiction pick for readers exploring Metropolis.

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Who it’s for
A technologically advanced city’s gleaming surface depends on exploited labor underground.
Themes
Labor exploitation, Class conflict, Love across social divides
Genres
Dystopian, Sci-Fi, The Classics

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About this book

Metropolis is set in 2026 in a technologically advanced city, which is sustained by the existence of an exploited class of laborers who live underground, far away from the gleaming surface world. Freder, the son of one of the city’s founders, falls in love with Maria, a girl from the underground. The two worlds are destined to clash and upheaval is inevitable. Can the two lovers survive the coming turmoil. Metropolis the novel was written along side the script for the movie.

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The two works intertwine to give a complete experience, much like the film and book versions of 2001: A Space Odyssey, one supports the other by bringing clarity and understanding to what the visual virtuosity of the other was meant to convey. This book is not of today or of the future. It tells of no place. It serves no cause, party or class. It has a moral which grows on the pillar of understanding: “The mediator between brain and muscle must be the Heart. —Thea Von Harbou

Splendor Below

A technologically advanced city’s gleaming surface depends on exploited labor underground.

Come here for

  • A science-fiction city divided by class
  • The friction between technological splendor and human cost

Expect

  • A novel written alongside its film script
  • A moral centered on understanding between brain and muscle

Where it sits

Dystopian82%
Sci-Fi74%
The Classics70%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
  • Dystopian
Authors
Thea von Harbou
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Published
March 23, 2021
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Labor exploitation · Class conflict · Love across social divides
Reading lane
Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic