| Title | : | Vril: The Power of the Coming Race |
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| Author | : | Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| Release | : | 2019-10-21 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
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| 1 | Vril: The Power of the Coming Race | Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| ‘Vrill, The power of the Coming Race’ (1870) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton is an early science fiction novel. The setting is a strange subterranean world inhabited by beautiful entities that resemble the angels described in scripture. The advanced beings known as Vril-ya live underground – using the mysterious ‘Vril’ as an energy source – but intend to reclaim the surface of the earth as their own. The narrator end deep inside the Earth via a natural chasm in a mine shaft. He is rescued by the Vril-ya, an advanced race that use telepathic powers, fly with artificial wings, are served by automata and possess formidable weapons. After a long stay, things go wrong and the protagonist escapes back to the surface with the help of Zee, one of the Vril-ya. |
