DEFOE, Daniel

DEFOE, Daniel
(1660-1731)
   UK merchant, professional spy and writer, extremely prolific author of many works of various kinds, though the huge canon of unsigned works attributed to him has in recent years been convincingly diminished. He is best known today for his novel The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner (1719) and its sequels, which, while not sf, provided a fundamental model for many sf stories (ROBINSONADE). Of interest to students of PROTO SCIENCE FICTION is The Consolidator, or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World of the Moon (1705; various savagely cut edns under vts 1705-41), in which a mechanical spirit-driven flying machine, the Consolidator, enables various satirical (SATIRE) observations to be made from a lunar viewpoint. A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), in effect a historical novel set in 1665, a year DD could presumably barely remember, is a prototype of the DISASTER novel. Some associational short work can be found in Tales of Piracy, Crime, and Ghosts (coll 1945 US).
   JC/PN
   See also: MACHINES; MOON; SPACE FLIGHT.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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  • Defoe, Daniel — (1660 1731)    Born in London, the son of a butcher, he became a hosiery merchant, traveling widely on the Continent. He took part in the Monmouth Rebellion (1685) and in 1688 joined the advancing forces of William III. He was popular with the… …   British and Irish poets

  • Defoe,Daniel — De·foe (dĭ fōʹ), Daniel. 1660 1731. British writer whose most famous novel, Robinson Crusoe (1719), was inspired by the exploits of a Scottish sailor and castaway, Alexander Selkirk. He also wrote Moll Flanders and A Journal of the Plague Year… …   Universalium

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  • Defoe, Daniel — (1661? 1731)    Journalist and novelist, s. of a butcher in St. Giles, where he was b. His f. being a Dissenter, he was ed. at a Dissenting coll. at Newington with the view of becoming a Presbyterian minister. He joined the army of Monmouth, and… …   Short biographical dictionary of English literature

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