Defoe, Gideon
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1976- ) UK author whose very Young Adult Pirates! sequence beginning with The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists (2004), spoofishly but entertainingly engages an incompetent pirate band – whose banter shows the influence of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-1974) – in various adventures back and forth throughout the nineteenth century, as seen through a Steampunk lens. In the first tale they encounter Charles Darwin and some Monsters; in others various Iconic entities from Napoléon Bonaparte to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; in the last tale, The Pirates!: In an Adventure with the Romantics; Or, Prometheus versus a Terrible Fungus (2012), they encounter Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley at the Villa Diodati, with the Frankenstein Monster about to heave into view. Defoe's contribution to the Shared World based on the Massively Multiplayer Online Game Elite Dangerous is Elite: Docking Is Difficult (2014). [JC]
Gideon Defoe
born 1976
works
series
The Pirates!
- The Pirates!: In an Adventure with Scientists (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004) [Pirates!: hb/]
- The Pirates!: In an Adventure with Whaling (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005) [Pirates!: hb/]
- The Pirates!: In an Adventure with Ahab (London: Bloomsbury, 2004) [vt of the above: Pirates!: pb/]
- The Pirates!: Band of Misfits (New York: Vintage Books, 2012) [omni of the above two: Pirates!: pb/]
- The Pirates!: In an Adventure with Communists (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006) [Pirates!: hb/]
- The Pirates!: In an Adventure with Napoleon (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2008) [Pirates!: hb/]
- The Pirates!: In an Adventure with the Romantics; Or, Prometheus versus a Terrible Fungus (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2012) [Pirates!: hb/]
Elite Dangerous
- Elite: Docking is Difficult (London: Gollancz, 2014) [tie to the game universe: Elite Dangerous: hb/uncredited]
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