Metropolis (novel)
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Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by the German writer Thea von Harbou. The novel was a treatment for Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, on which von Harbou and Lang collaborated in 1924.
First edition cover
Cover of the first edition of the English translation (art by Aubrey Hammond)
Cover of the Ace Science Fiction 1963 edition of the English translation (art by Jack Gaughan)
Thea von Harbou
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Thea Gabriele von Harbou was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress. She is remembered as the screenwriter of the science fiction film classic Metropolis and for the 1925 novel on
Metropolis (novel)
…Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by the German writer Thea von Harbou. The novel was a treatment for Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, on which von Harbou and Lang collaborated in 1924. The story is set in a technologically…
von Harbou, c. 1928
Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou in their Berlin flat, 1923 or 1924
A monument in her hometown of Tauperlitz