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Defoe, Daniel (1660–1731)


Daniel Defoe
Journalist and chronicler of the adventures of Robinson Crusoe who, in The Consolidator: Or Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World of the Moon (1705), described the discovery of an eponymous spaceship, invented 2,000 years before the Flood by a Chinese scientist named Mira-cho-cho-lasmo. The Consolidator is a flying machine powered by an internal combustion engine which also featured hibernation capsules (see suspended animation) to ease the tedium of long spaceflights.


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