The Coming Race (Annotated)

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race is a seminal work of Victorian speculative fiction, framing a traveler's discovery of the subterranean Vril-ya, a technologically and spiritually advanced people whose mastery of the mysterious force "Vril" has transformed society. Written in a lucid, ironic, and pseudo-ethnographic style, the novel blends utopian romance, satirical anthropology, occult specu...