The Coming Race : Illustrated
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (913 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M17LDIQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 194 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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N.Higgins can be contacted at alan.higgins@lineone.net said Jules Verne meets H.G. Wells in Lytton's Dystopic Narrative. Written in 1871 The Coming Race was one of the last books ever written by the author, he died two years later. The story begins when an American civil engineer falls into an underground world. There he discovers a subterranean paradise inhabited by a race called the Vril-ya.These Vril-ya . Amazon Customer said First off I would like to review this printing. First off I would like to review this printing. The print is very cramped and small. It looks as thought it was copied and pasted from an online public domain source and allowed to be printed the way it arrived in MS Word. There is no indentation. The only indicator of paragraphs is when . A Creaky but interesting tale from the dawn of sci fi Marc Haefele 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
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.. Among the earliest examples of what would become the genre of science fiction, among many authors it influenced H. Wells, Samuel Butler, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. G. The Power of The Coming Race is a powerful novel that fired the imagination of readers starting in the 1870's
Its premise is unflinchingly futuristic: the inevitable displacement of today’s humanity by a more evolved 'race.' But the story unfolds in perhaps the last unexplored place on earth—the 'hollow' interior of the planet…”—Gerald Jonas, The New York Times Book Review. “First published in 1871, The Coming Race represents a curious hybrid