From Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth to Rudy Rucker's The Hollow Earth

Subterranean worlds have been a source of both fascination and fear for the literary imagination, and The Coming Race is no exception. An evolutionary fantasy first published in 1871, the story draws upon ideas of Darwinism to describe a near-future world characterised by female dominance, physical perfection, and vast technological progress.

The novel was extremely popular in its time and is now considered a seminal science fiction text by contemporary scholars. (Goodreads)