Saturday, January 26, 2019
Welcome back to Straightlaced Saturday and a new feature here at Teagan’s Books. Victorian Novels will complement the era of my steampunk serial, Copper, the Alchemist, and the Woman in Trousers.
The latest chapter of that serial (click here for chapter 27) mentioned another novel written within the time-frame of my story.
Vril, the Power of the Coming Race
This week’s novel from the Victorian Era is Vril, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It has been published as The Coming Race (as Bulwer-Lytton first anonymously published it in 1871), Vril the Power of the Coming Race, and simply Vril.
Victorian Science Fiction
Vril was science fiction, before anyone even gave the genre that name. The straightlaced folks of the day might have described it as “science fictional” though it wouldn’t have been a genre name.
Vril, the Power of the Coming…
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lampmagician 
Huge thanks for sharing, Magician.
(Also, I have repaired the Project Gutenberg link to the free book in the post.)
Have a wonderful weekend. You’re the cat’s pajamas!
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Thank you, dearest, for remembering me on this wonderful old time. have a lucky trip ❤
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