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There’s a lot of writing here, that has clearly served as an inspiration for dystopian sci-fi. “dissected for scientific purposes”, “reduced to a cinder” You can see its character echoed in Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyssey. Lines like “I fear there are reasons why I cannot do that […] put an end to you, or enclose you in a cage for the rest of your existence” wouldn’t raise an eyebrow coming from HAL

I’m really enjoying this and will save my theories on ‘The Coming Race’ and ‘Vrill’ for later.

However I will say that I don’t believe this to be a baseless fiction but see that it includes many truths too powerful for mass appeal.

“The philologist will have seen from the above how much the language of the ‘Vril-ya’ is akin to the Aryan or Indo-Germanic”

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.