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The Coming Race

First published: 1871
Pages: 141

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Chapters 01-02
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Chapters 03-04
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Chapters 05-06
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Chapters 07-08
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Chapter 09
27:16
Chapters 10-11
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Chapter 12
21:31
Chapters 13-14
14:16
Chapter 15
27:03
Chapter 16
29:59
Chapter 17
32:10
Chapter 18
22:48
Chapters 19-20
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Chapter 21
10:22
Chapter 22
16:44
Chapters 23- 24
28:17
Chapter 25-Part 1
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Chapter 25-Part 2
19:54
Chapter 26
18:19
Chapters 27-28
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Chapter 29
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A mining engineer descends through a chasm and stumbles into a vast underground world ruled by the Vril-ya, a serene and powerful race who long ago mastered a natural force they call Vril. This energy heals, destroys, and powers their machines, and it has made war and want obsolete. Among them women are the stronger sex and choose their own mates, a reversal the narrator finds both fascinating and unnerving. Bulwer-Lytton uses the fantasy to satirize Victorian faith in progress and democracy, hinting that this superior race may one day surface and displace humankind. Published in 1871, the book helped shape early science fiction and, oddly, later occult lore around the word Vril. Free to read in PDF and EPUB.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a Member of Parliament, briefly Colonial Secretary, and for a stretch of the nineteenth century among the best-paid novelists in England, which is not how he is remembered.