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<i>Metropolis</i>: A Fever Dream of Mankind, Our Machines, and Maria

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Metropolis: A Fever Dream of Mankind, Our Machines, and Maria

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Black Futuras: How Three Pop Divas Adapted the Image of Metropolis’ Maschinenmensch 

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I Said I’d Make a Woman: Barbie and the Pygmalion Paradigm

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Sam Esmail’s Vision of Metropolis Is Coming to Apple TV

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Novelist and Documentarian John Crowley Talks H.G. Wells and Movies: The Sleeper Awakes and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis

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Which Type of Artificial Intelligence Would You Rather See in Our Future?

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Steampunk anime: Steamboy

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Review: Astro Boy

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Ancient Rockets: Modern Times

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Ancient Rockets: Metropolis

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Ancient Rockets: Aelita, Queen of Mars

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“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand Of Darkness

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