Title: Metropolis

Title: Metropolis Title Record # 14211
Author: Thea von Harbou
Date: 1927-00-00
Variant Title of: Metropolis [German] (1926) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: NOVEL [novelization]
Series: Metropolis
Language: English

Note: When Thea von Harbou became Fritz Lang's second wife in 1922, she'd already established herself as an important author and screenwriter. The idea for Metropolis emerged from a novella she'd written a few years previously. The finished novel of Metropolis was written while she (with assistance from Lang) worked on the screenplay. Thus the first 1926 edition of the book (274 pp.) should be viewed as a novel in its own right, while the second 1926 edition of the book is a more direct movie tie-in (194 pp.).

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Publications

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Metropolis	1927-00-00	Thea von Harbou	Readers Library Pub. Co.		2/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	250	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Aubrey Hammond
Metropolis	1927-00-00	Thea von Harbou	Hutchinson			250	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Metropolis	1963-00-00	Thea von Harbou	Ace Books	F-246	$0.40^?$: US dollar	222	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Jack Gaughan
Metropolis	1975-00-00	Thea von Harbou	Ace Books (Science Fiction from the Great Years)	52831	$1.25^?$: US dollar	222	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Vincent Di Fate
Metropolis	1975-00-00	Thea von Harbou	Gregg Press (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series)	0-8398-2317-7	$12.50^?$: US dollar	xxix+ 250	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Metropolis	1988-03-00	Thea von Harbou	Starblaze / The Donning Company	0-89865-518-8	$12.95^?$: US dollar	[5]+ 170	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Michael W. Kaluta
Metropolis	1988-03-00	Thea von Harbou	Starblaze / The Donning Company	0-89865-519-6	$19.95^?$: US dollar	170	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Michael W. Kaluta
Metropolis	1988-03-00	Thea von Harbou	Starblaze / The Donning Company	0-89865-520-X	$40.00^?$: US dollar	[1]+ 170	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Metropolis: 75th Anniversary Edition	2002-01-00	Thea von Harbou	Sense of Wonder Press	0-918736-35-8	$18.95^?$: US dollar	xxi+ 240	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Metropolis: 75th Anniversary Edition	2002-01-00	Thea von Harbou	Sense of Wonder Press	0-918736-34-X	$60.00^?$: US dollar	xxi+ 240	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Metropolis	2006-06-00	Thea von Harbou	Project Gutenberg of Australia	0601891	A$0.00^?A$: Australian dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Metropolis	2009-03-22	Thea von Harbou	Pageturner	978-1-58873-097-8	$2.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Metropolis	2013-07-30	Thea von Harbou	VegaTrope	978-1-4912-1529-6	$13.99^?$: US dollar	238	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Kurt Degen
Metropolis	2014-01-17	Thea von Harbou	Pulpville Press	978-0-615-95292-5	$15.00^?$: US dollar	306	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Metropolis	2015-05-11	Thea von Harbou	Dover Publications	978-0-486-80509-2	$8.95^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Kurt Degen
Metropolis	2015-05-20	Thea von Harbou	Dover Publications	978-0-486-79567-6	$8.95^?$: US dollar	224	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Kurt Degen
Metropolis	2017-11-19	Thea von Harbou	War Goat Press	978-1-943466-04-7	$1.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	Manthos Lappas
Metropolis	2020-12-13	Thea von Harbou	Roy Glashan's Library		A$0.00^?A$: Australian dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel

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Reviews

Review by L. J. Knapp (1975) in The Science Fiction Review Monthly, December 1975
Review by Art Metzger (1976) in Quantum (1975-78), #2, 1976
Review [German] by uncredited (1982) in Reclams Science Fiction Führer
Review by Baird Searles (1989) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1989
Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1991) in Science Fiction: The Early Years