num_pages: 280
description: The story of a fascinating underground world of winged beingsClimbing through the recesses of a mine, an English man falls into a deep chasm and finds himself suddenly trapped in a subterranean world inhabited by an ancient race of advanced beings. From Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth to Chris Marker's La Jetée, subterranean worlds have been a source of both fascination and fear for the literary imagination and The Coming Race is no exception. An evolutionary fantasy first published in 1871, the story draws upon ideas of Darwinism to describe a near future world characterized by female dominance, physical perfection, and vast technological progress. The novel was extremely popular in its time and is now considered a seminal science fiction text by contemporary scholars. This Wesleyan edition includes scholarly notes and an introduction that places the work in an intellectual and literary context, and describes the author's interest in the occult.
language: English
title: The Coming Race
titlecomplete: The Coming Race (Early Classics Of Science Fiction)
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Utopia, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, 19th Century, Fantasy
ratings_count: 1499
places: Hollow Earth, United Kingdom
publisher: Wesleyan University Press