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📚 SYNOPSIS

When an American engineer accidentally discovers a vast subterranean world, he encounters the Vril-ya — an advanced civilization that has mastered a mysterious energy called "Vril." With this power, they have eliminated war, poverty, and labor, achieving a perfect society of serene abundance.

But their perfection is unsettling. The Vril-ya are stronger, smarter, and utterly inhuman in their calm superiority. Their women wield greater power than their men. They speak casually of exterminating inferior races. They have achieved utopia — but at what cost?

Published in 1871, The Coming Race is a haunting exploration of progress, power, and the price of perfection. It asks questions we still cannot answer: What happens when technology gives us god-like abilities? Can humanity transcend itself without losing its humanity?

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✨ ABOUT THE BOOK

📅 *Published:* 1871
✍️ *Author:* Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
🌍 *Genre:* Science Fiction, Dystopian Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Victorian Literature
⚡ *Key Concept:* "Vril" — a fictional energy source that influenced occult movements and later pseudoscience
🏆 *Legacy:* Pioneering work of proto-science fiction that influenced H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and the development of SF as a genre
🔮 *Cultural Impact:* The concept of "Vril" escaped fiction and entered occult speculation, Theosophy, and even Nazi mythology

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👤 ABOUT THE AUTHOR: EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON

📖 Victorian novelist, politician, and occultist
🎭 Author of *The Last Days of Pompeii*, *Paul Clifford*, *Zanoni*, and numerous other influential works
🏛️ Member of Parliament and Colonial Secretary (1858-59)
👑 Elevated to peerage as 1st Baron Lytton in 1866
✨ Known for exploring occult and esoteric themes in his fiction
💬 Coined phrases: "the pen is mightier than the sword" and "the great unwashed"
⚰️ Buried in Westminster Abbey (1873)



🌟 WHY THIS BOOK MATTERS TODAY

🤖 Parallels modern concerns about AI, transhumanism, and technological power
⚠️ Warning about the dangers of pursuing perfection at any cost
📜 Historical document of Victorian scientific and social anxieties
🔮 Case study in how fiction becomes myth and enters cultural consciousness
🎓 Essential reading for understanding the roots of science fiction


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00:07:05.168 Chapter 02

00:12:44.737 Chapter 03

00:16:33.367 Chapter 04

00:19:47.424 Chapter 05

00:43:43.640 Chapter 06

00:45:44.221 Chapter 07

01:02:15.254 Chapter 08

01:04:34.115 Chapter 09

01:29:48.747 Chapter 10

01:41:57.839 Chapter 11

01:46:29.448 Chapter 12

02:04:48.899 Chapter 13

02:09:22.245 Chapter 14

02:17:42.458 Chapter 15

02:42:26.250 Chapter 16

03:09:58.304 Chapter 17

03:39:33.934 Chapter 18

04:00:09.166 Chapter 19

04:05:30.599 Chapter 20

04:13:03.992 Chapter 21

04:22:18.810 Chapter 22

04:37:39.086 Chapter 23

04:58:27.600 Chapter 24

05:03:46.364 Chapter 25

05:43:34.118 Chapter 26

06:00:43.412 Chapter 27

06:06:57.671 Chapter 28

06:14:06.730 Chapter 29

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