Vril: The Power of the Coming Race

Name: Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
ISBN: 9781982786120

Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Narrator: Glen Reed

Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Author's Republic

Published: 10/21/2019

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

‘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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Warren

If you live in the UK, you may have tasted Bovril, a popular yeast and beef extract paste used as cooking stock. Obviously, part of the name comes from "bovine" or the Latin word for beef, which is "bos," but I didn't know that "vril" originated entirely from a work of science fiction--namely from t......more

Goodreads review by Dfordoom

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, was one of the big guns of Victorian literature. His books were bestsellers and he garnered considerable critical acclaim as well. And yet today he is not merely mostly unread, he has become a byword by bad writing, with a literary competit......more

Goodreads review by Juho

A travel guide to realms we can never visit, a vehicle for some truly unsubtle sort of satire. Very little in terms of characterization or actual story. There weren't a lot of science fiction stories way back when, I guess, but now that we have a lot to choose from, I can't say this one has aged too......more

Goodreads review by Cwn_annwn_13

Written in the 1870s its easy to see how this was such a big influence on science fiction, fantasy, hollow earth theorists, utopiaists, occultists and Eugenicists. Two men go exploring underground in a mining area, one dies in a fall and the other happens upon an underground civilization and it goes......more