| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 19 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Glen Reed. |
| Summary |
'Vrill, The power of the Coming Race' (1870) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton is an early science fiction novel. The setting is a strange subterranean world inhabited by beautiful entities that resemble the angels described in scripture. The advanced beings known as Vril-ya live underground - using the mysterious 'Vril' as an energy source - but intend to reclaim the surface of the earth as their own. The narrator end deep inside the Earth via a natural chasm in a mine shaft. He is rescued by the Vril-ya, an advanced race that use telepathic powers, fly with artificial wings, are served by automata and possess formidable weapons. After a long stay, things go wrong and the protagonist escapes back to the surface with the help of Zee, one of the Vril-ya. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Civilization, Subterranean -- Fiction.
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Underground areas -- Fiction.
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Utopias -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Science fiction.
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Utopian fiction.
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| Added Author |
Reed, Glen.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982786120 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982786124 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12688097 |
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