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The Coming Race ; THE NEW REVIEW

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20070617
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By Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Hesperus

[pound]6.99

An attractive reprint (pocket-sized, lightly edited, with an erudite introduction by Matthew Sweet) of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 science fiction novel. A traveller falls down a mineshaft and finds himself in the subterranean world of the Vril-Ya - a race of super-beings whose level of civilisation is as far above that of the terrestrial world as they are physically below it. In fact it's less SF than social criticism, like Samuel Butler's Erewhon or William Morris's News from Nowhere. The Vril-Ya live in perfect equality, they can fly, they ...

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