Vril, the Power of the Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Science Fiction

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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.