{"id":95,"date":"2014-09-17T11:10:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T15:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2014-12-03T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T21:57:06","slug":"the-coming-race","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/the-coming-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_399\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/files\/2014\/09\/TCR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-399\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-399\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/files\/2014\/09\/TCR-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"-Rachel Benner (not sure how to cite myself). \" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/files\/2014\/09\/TCR-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/files\/2014\/09\/TCR.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 100&#8242; Beast \u00a0-Rachel Benner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This novel centers on a independently wealthy \u00a0young man with desire to travel. On his travels he\u00a0falls into a subterranean world inhabited by creatures and people the likes of which he has never encountered. The people survive with the help of an energy source known as &#8220;Vril&#8221;, which gives\u00a0the ability to heal, change, destroy and possibly become telepathic. The Vril-ya are a highly civilized and evolutionarily advanced society, who believe\u00a0their eventual purpose is to one day rise to the surface of the Earth and wipe out the every inhabitant they see as inferior\u00a0in the process. As the narrator spends more time with the Vril-ya, his infatuation with the &#8220;superiority&#8221; of the humanoid race\u00a0transforms into trepidation, as the darker aspects of the society, including eugenics, and even mind control,\u00a0are revealed. \u00a0The novel raises the question of whether these\u00a0evolutionarily advanced people belong to a\u00a0utopia or a dystopia by drawing parallels to Victorian British society, economics, and technology. Their lifestyle, attitudes towards art, and eugenics-influenced\u00a0method of procreation\u00a0allows the reader to question the morality and feasibility of this &#8220;superior&#8221; society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This novel centers on a independently wealthy \u00a0young man with desire to travel. On his travels he\u00a0falls into a subterranean world inhabited by creatures and people the likes of which he has never encountered. The people survive with the help of an energy source known as &#8220;Vril&#8221;, which gives\u00a0the ability to heal, change, destroy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2431,"featured_media":386,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/scalexan-vsf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}