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Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton

Lifespan
1803 – 1873
Nationality
British
Active
1834 – 1871
Works held
11

Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) was one of the most successful novelists of the Victorian age, coiner of ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ and, alas, ‘It was a dark and stormy night’. For science fiction he matters most for The Coming Race (1871), whose subterranean super-beings wielding the energy-force ‘vril’ launched a whole hollow-earth, hidden-master tradition (and, indirectly, the name of a beef extract).

The works

  1. 1871
    Cover of La race future La race future Cover of The Coming Race The Coming Race
  2. 1862
    Cover of A Strange Story, Complete A Strange Story, Complete Cover of A Strange Story, Volume 04 A Strange Story, Volume 04 Cover of A Strange Story, Volume 05 A Strange Story, Volume 05 Cover of A Strange Story, Volume 06 A Strange Story, Volume 06 Cover of A Strange Story, Volume 08 A Strange Story, Volume 08
  3. 1842
    Cover of Zanoni Zanoni
  4. 1838
    Cover of Zicci: A Tale, Volume 01 Zicci: A Tale, Volume 01 Cover of Zicci: A Tale, Volume 02 Zicci: A Tale, Volume 02
  5. 1834
    Cover of The Pilgrims of the Rhine The Pilgrims of the Rhine

Wrote across

1830s1840s1860s1870s

Recurring themes

HorrorFantasyUtopiaLost World

Kindred authors shared themes

H. G. WellsH. P. LovecraftHenry KuttnerMargaret St. ClairRobert E. HowardRobert W. ChambersA. Hyatt VerrillAbraham Merritt

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Jules VerneGeorge MacDonaldJoseph Sheridan Le FanuLewis CarrollMór JókaiCharles DickensDinah Maria Mulock CraikFrank R. StocktonGeorge SandH. C. Andersen

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