The Coming Race by Bulwer Lytton Edward Bulwer Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton

Edward Lytton was an English novelist, playwright and politician. Many famous literary phrases come from Lord Lytton such as: "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and "it was a dark and stormy night". Some consider The Coming Race to be the first science fiction novel. His story of a superior subterranean master race and the energy form Vril was so compelling that many people believed it to be true. Even as late as 1960 there has been a theory about a secret Vril society