Status Updates From Vril: The Power of the Comi...

The protagonist is starting to get on my nerves. He clearly doesn't embrace the clear superiority of the Vril-Ya way of life.

It's one of this books that just reminds me how much the society sucks by presenting something so much better.

Fascinating book. Not rally what I expected since it seemed to be appropriated by some esoteric Nazis.
Huh, the look of the underground race seems to be based on native Americans.
I just realized why I was interested in that novel.
It's this quote:
“No happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without unity.”
It's tantalizing.

Reading all these old sci-fi novels really recontextualizes HPL.

The book had a great, fast start, but has begun to stall as it describes as documentation more than telling a narrative story.

The author stating he will expound upon a fact or idea later *every* chapter is a little grating, but am enjoying the mental image of a subterranean world lit by phosphorous energy, egyptian pillars, and people who look almost uncannily like etruscan sculptures. Lytton seemed to have discovered the Sabir Whorf hypothesis, and dryly giving details of a language to shape their way of seeing their world (...)