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5.0 out of 5 stars
Startling and Provocative,
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This review is from: Vril: The Power Of The Coming Race (Paperback)
From the very first pages Vril hooks and reels you in with its snappy narrative and provocative themes of "grrrl power" and other startling aspects of the vril-endowed subterranean super-race. For a Victorian novel it is astonishingly readable and will reward you with its thoughtful, far-ranging exploration of political and gender issues. Holds up surprisingly well.
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The Coming Race,
By Cwn_Annwn (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vril: The Power of the Coming Race (Hardcover)
Written in the 1870s its easy to see how this was such a big influence on science fiction, fantasy, hollow earth theorists, utopiaists, occultists and Eugenicists. Two men go exploring underground in a mining area, one dies in a fall and the other happens upon an underground civilization and it goes from there. This civilization is nearly a utopia, they are in control of a seemingly "magic" substance known to them as Vril which be used for destructive or healing purposes. Also when reading the depictions of the women in this world I couldn't help but be reminded of Danish women. Tall, beautiful, strong, intelligent but incredibly stubborn! The story loses me for a short time in a few spots when he goes into some of the intricies of the society he has discovered in the subterranean world but overall this was a good yarn.
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Vril: The Power of the Coming Race by Edward Lytton (Paperback - July 1986)
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