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The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton:
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The novel concerns the adventures of a young, wealthy traveller (the narrator), who visits a friend, a mining engineer. They explore a natural chasm in a mine which has been exposed by an exploratory shaft. The narrator reaches the bottom of the chasm safely, but the rope breaks and his friend is killed. The narrator finds his way into a subterranean world occupied by beings who seem to resemble angels.

Also published as Vril: The Power of the Coming Race. The book served to popularize the Hollow Earth theory, and was a significant contributor to the nascent science fiction genre.

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