Metropolis Author:Thea von Harbou Ace Books Paperback No. 52831. "Science Fiction from the Great Years" The author's 1927 novel of the future city, wherein the wealthy Capitalists spend their days playing in the sun and getting richer and the lowly proletarians spend all their days marching in squadron to and from work and otherwise staring at the machinery they operate . . . ... more » until the Revolt! And the Capitalist spy is a robot! The source of the great Fritz Lang movie (Lang was the author's husband) and others and the progenitor of lots of Dystopian novels.« less