The Coming Race » (1st Edition)

Author of over 100 other works, SIR EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON was a prolific writer and remains, even today, a well-recognized figure in 19th century British literature. DAVID SEED is a prominent British scholar of early science fiction. He holds a personal chair in American Literature at the University of Liverpool and is the author of American Science Fiction and the Cold War.

The story of a fascinating underground world of winged beings

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton's seminal 1871 SF novel, The Coming Race, edited with an introduction by British scholar David Seed, recounts the adventures of an Englishman in an underground world inhabited by a race of advanced beings. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Note on the Text Acknowledgments Introduction The Coming Race Appendix: Bulwer-Lytton's First Underworld Notes Bibliography Edward Bulwer-Lytton: A Biography