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Vril
1871 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Vril (disambiguation).
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as The Coming Race, is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.
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![]() Cover of one 1871 Blackwood "edition"[1] | |
Author | Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
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Genre | Science fiction novel Subterranean fiction |
Publisher | William Blackwood and Sons |
Publication date | May 1871[2] |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 292[3] |
OCLC | 7017241 |
823.8 | |
LC Class | HX811 1871 .L9[3] |
Text | The Coming Race at Wikisource |
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Some readers have believed the account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril", at least in part; some theosophists, notably Helena Blavatsky, William Scott-Elliot, and Rudolf Steiner, accepted the book as based on occult truth, in part.[4] One 1960 book, The Morning of the Magicians by Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels, suggested that a secret Vril Society existed in Weimar Berlin.
The name "Vril" may be based on the word virile,[5] as has repeatedly been suggested.