The Coming Race
Автор:
Edward Bulwer-LyttonЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2024-10-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
55
Description
An engineer encounters a strange sight while exploring a mine, and reluctantly reports it to the narrator. The two descend into the mine together, but an accident causes the narrator to fall through a crevice and into a secret subterranean world. The inhabitants seem to be an offshoot of an ancient human race who have been living and evolving underground. They have command over a fluid called vril, which gives them both great destructive and great creative and healing powers. Because of their ability to destroy so easily, their society has developed into a very peaceful, utopian one. They don’t eat or kill animals, and only take life that is a threat to their community.
These people call themselves the Vril-ya, and consider...
