DISRAELI, Benjamin

DISRAELI, Benjamin
(1804-1881)
   UK novelist and statesman, MP from 1837 and, in 1868 and again 1874-80, Prime Minister. He became Lord Beaconsfield. His almost-forgotten youthful novel The Voyage of Captain Popanilla (1828; published anon) has an innocent savage from a South Seas UTOPIA voyaging to an imaginary country closely resembling a satirized England. Modern sf normally uses actual ALIENS rather than savages as their innocent observers in books of this kind, but the principle is the same. BD features RECURSIVELY in THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE (1990 UK) by Bruce STERLING and William GIBSON.
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