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The Coming Race
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as The Coming Race, is a science and subterranean fiction novel by the British politician and writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.
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- Author
- Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
- First published
- 1871
- Editions
- 262
- Subjects
- Underground areas, Subterranean civilization in fiction, Utopias, Subterranean Civilization, Fiction, Utopias in fiction, Underground areas in fiction, Pausanias, in fiction
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Key facts
- Book.name
- The Coming Race
- Book.image
- The Coming Race (1871).png
- Book.caption
- Cover of one 1871 Blackwood "edition"
- Book.author
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Book.country
- United Kingdom
- Book.genre
- Science fiction novelSubterranean fiction
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13 sectionsContents
- History
- Plot summary
- Vril in the novel
- Literary significance and reception
- Stage adaptation
- Vril Society
- Willy Ley
- Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels
- Publications on the Vril Society in German
- Esoteric neo-Nazism
- See also
- References
- External links
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as The Coming Race, is a science and subterranean fiction novel by the British politician and writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.
Some readers have believed the account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril", at least in part; some theosophists, notably Helena Blavatsky, William Scott-Elliot and Rudolf Steiner, accepted the book as based on occult truth, in part. One 1960 book, The Morning of the Magicians by Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels, suggested that a secret Vril Society existed in Weimar Berlin.