Vril: The Power of the Coming Race Audiobook (Free)

‘Vrill, The energy of the Arriving Competition’ (1870) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton is an early technology fiction novel. The setting can be a strange subterranean globe inhabited by beautiful entities that resemble the angels explained in scripture. The advanced beings known as Vril-ya live underground – using the inexplicable ‘Vril’ as an energy resource – but intend to reclaim the top of earth as their very own. The narrator end deep inside the Earth via a organic chasm inside a mine shaft. He is rescued by the Vril-ya, a sophisticated race that use telepathic powers, take a flight with artificial wings, are offered by automata and still have formidable weapons. After a long stay, things go wrong as well as the protagonist escapes back to the surface with the help of Zee, among the Vril-ya.