Metropolis

Thea von Harbou's Metropolis is one science fiction classic everyone should read. Her visionary novel has been compared to such prophetic classics as Samuel Butler's Erewhon, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, H. G. Wells' When the Sleeper Wakes, Karel Capek's RUR, and George Orwell's 1984. Contemporary comparisons have been made to Samuel Delaney's Triton, Dan Simmons' Hyperion, Peter F. Hamilton's The Reality Dysfunction, and Greg Egan's Permutation City. "The language [of the book] is so...