The Coming Race (1871 novel)

The Coming Race (also republished as The Coming Race, or the New Utopia and Vril, the Power of the Coming Race) is an 1871 English-language novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally published anonymously by Blackwood and Sons (in Edinburgh and London). The story relates the explorations of an unnamed narrator in the subterranean world of the Vril-ya, a race of technologically-advanced telepaths descended from an antediluvian civilisation known as the Ana, and introduces the concept of vril as an all-permeating electrical fluid harnessed by the Vril-ya peoples.

Reading

 * https://borderlandsciences.org/project/vril/ref/coming-race/index.html

Translations

 * &mdash; translation by Wachsmuth, a follower of Rudolf Steiner's esoteric thought