Subterranean fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction, which focuses on fictional underground settings, sometimes at the center of the Earth or otherwise deep below the surface. The genre is based
Illustration of a fictional underground town from The Child of the Cavern by Jules Férat.
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as The Coming Race, is a science and subterranean fiction novel by the British politician and writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymousl
Subterranean fiction
…Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally titled Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel Vril. Mary Lane's Mizora (1880–81) combines the hollow-Earth theme with feminism…
Willy Ley (right) in a discussion with Heinz Haber (left) and Wernher von Braun, 1954
Title page of the Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft's 1930 pamphlet on Vril
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton by Henry William Pickersgill