Vril" is a mysterious energy used by Lytton's subterranean race - refugees from the deluge that submerged Atlantis - to power their advanced civilization. Generations of occultists have mistaken this bit of business for something other than fiction; and still more generations of science fiction writers have recycled the novel's plot. Vril is a book of strong interest to anyone doing a scholarly study of the evolution of SF; it's also a novel well worth reading in its own right. (Jacketless library hardcover.) | Vril The Power Of The Coming Race By Edward George Lytton Bulwer-lytton Science Fiction by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters