Cover of The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

The Coming Race

1871

The Coming Race follows a narrator who discovers an advanced subterranean civilization that possesses superior technology and social organization. The novel explores this underground utopian society and its potential implications for the surface world above.

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