Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s narrator in The Coming Race (1871) comes into contact with another highly developed species of humanoids calling themselves
Category: Assignment 2
Thrown off the Throne
What if the human race is not entitled to its self-proclaimed superiority? Such a question is posed in the early
Angelic imagery of a posthuman species in “The Coming Race”
“Nor, on the other hand, do you seem to belong to any civilised people“, (Pos. 345) says one of the
Pre-Post-Human
In Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race (1871), we are presented our narrator, an unnamed traveller, who, after a descent into
Towards the Other – Posthuman Utopia?
Fiction has always offered us a playfull ground for revisiting our civilization, and also for testing its possibilities, its directions
Prosthesis and the Body
This novel’s opening was fascinating and yet all too familiar. The story of an explorer finding an advanced race underground
An inorganic future
The title “The Coming Race” is a surprisingly paradoxical title. At one point it conveys the narrative’s interest in the
The Coming of the Future of Humanity
(Bostrom, 2009, p. 20) Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Coming Race (1871), is set in an Utopian underground world discovered by a
Fear Not the Machine, Fear the Human
It seems that when it comes to techno-apocalypse, the pendulum of the human imagination is swinging further and further to
Down the hole up the ladder
The protagonist in Edward Bulwer-Lutton’s “The Coming Race” ends up in an utopian parallel univers underneath the surface of the