num_pages: 204
description: Bulwer-Lytton is legend nowadays for the qualities of his prose: but we find his prose attractive, in its languid way; and certainly the man was a profound thinker. "Vril" is a mysterious energy used by Lytton's subterranean race -- refugees from the deluge that submerged Atlantis -- to power their advanced civilization. Generations of occultists have mistaken this bit of business for something other than fiction; and still more generations of science fiction writers have recycled the novel's plot. Vril is a book of strong interest to anyone doing a scholarly study of the evolution of SF; it's also a novel well worth reading in its own right.
language: English
title: Vril, the Power of the Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Science Fiction
titlecomplete: Vril, the Power of the Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Science Fiction
genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Utopia, 19th Century, Classics, Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 1500
places: United Kingdom, Hollow Earth
publisher: Borgo Press