The Coming Race

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The Coming Race is an 1871 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, reprinted as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race. It was a literary attempt to popularize certain ideas of fringe scholarship.

Bulwer-Lytton believed in paranormal phenomena at a time when many Europeans rejected any claims of paranormal phenomena as sheer superstition.


Tropes used in The Coming Race include: