The Coming Race - FULL AUDIOBOOK Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Coming Race - FULL AUDIOBOOK Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873) Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician.
Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed"; "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword"; and the infamous incipit "It was a dark and stormy night."
The Coming Race drew heavily on his interest in the occult and contributed to the birth of the science fiction genre. Unquestionably, its story of a subterranean race of men waiting to reclaim the surface is one of the first science fiction novels. The novel centers on a young, independently wealthy traveler (the narrator), who accidentally finds his way into a subterranean world occupied by beings who seem to resemble angels, who call themselves Vril-ya. The hero soon discovers that they are descendants of an antediluvian civilization who live in networks of subterranean caverns linked by tunnels. The narrator suggests that in time, the Vril-ya will run out of habitable spaces underground and will start claiming the surface of the earth, destroying mankind in the process, if necessary. (Summary compiled from Wikipedia)
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