The Coming Race Illustrated Edward BulwerLytton
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The Power of The Coming Race is a powerful novel that fired the imagination of readers starting in the 1870's. Among the earliest examples of what would become the genre of science fiction, among many authors it influenced H. G. Wells, Samuel Butler, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book tells the story of a young American adventurer who discovers a portal to an underground world at the bottom of a mine shaft. In this world lives a highly advanced race, with a dark secret.
The Coming Race Illustrated Edward BulwerLytton
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The Coming Race Illustrated Edward BulwerLytton Reviews
Nice to know Hitler's inspiration for finding the aliens. Hint, they've been here a long time.
Very intruiging book, it is amazing this was written in the 19th century. The historical resemblence to the modern Vril society creates a mesh of interesting thoughts regarding the history of WWII. Great book for sci-fi fans.
I'm something of a Bulwer Lytton fan, so I looked forward to this, one of his rare works in the field of speculative fiction. Oddly, though, here Bulwer tends to disregard even the science of the early 1870s in which it was written. It's the tale of a Gilded Age American mining engineer's encounter with the super-developed subterranean culture of the Vril Ya. Despite its imagined aircraft and robotic automatons, the book is really a fantasy. It's based on the idea of a race of humans with innate supernatural powers who have created a fossilized and somewhat Buddhist-style peaceful society, but who also feel morally obliged to destroy "inferior" cultures such as ours. I think the author intended a parallel with the European colonialism of his time. There is also an interesting cultural reversal of the roles of men and women, which includes some of Bulwer's liveliest writing. But on the whole, the book is more of a prolonged philosophical anecdote than an entertainment.
I recently became aware of the concept of Vril watching a show on the History Channel. Did some research and happened to come a across this book. Looked like a good read, but was shocked to find that there was no copy available at the Library, so I purchased it.
Way ahead of its time when written, and found it a very interesting read. Highly recommended.
Bulwer-Lytton has an undeserved reputation as a bad writer, but he is a wonderful storyteller who created a lot of the best-known phrases we still use today.
Written by Bulwer-Lytton of Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Competition fame, this isn't the greatest novel I've ever read. That said, if you're searching for this item, you probably know what you're getting. The plot concerns a modern western man thrust into a utopia peopled by the Ana, who have harnessed the incredible power of vril, the ultimate combination of electromagnetism, mesmerism, and Odic force. Whatever that is. He goes through the usual discussions of how their language works, funerals, foods and all that that you might expect in this sort of work, but thankfully in less detail than usual (the whole novel is only around 100 pages). Although considered on par with a pet frog, our hero manages to woo the daughters of the two most powerful dudes in the region. Unfortunately, this means he has to be burned to a cinder. Drama ensues!
Specificly to the Cathedral Classics edition, the physical quality of the book is pretty nice, especially for the price, but the text has a lot of typos. Tolerable, but if that really bugs you, get a different edition.
This book is outstanding. The subject of the book is nothing compared to the grammar and depicting of current date political craziness. WOW! I am recommending it read and see for yourself.
I was interested in reading this because I read the Nazis read this book and believed it to be more fact than fiction. I like Victorian style writing and found the book an interesting read. I would recommend the book to anyone who appreciates early classics.
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