Phileas Fogg [SEP] creator
Phileas Fogg
Phileas Fogg () is the protagonist in the 1873 Jules Verne novel "Around the World in Eighty Days". An inspiration for the character were the real round-the-world travels of the American writer and adventurer William Perry Fogg.
Fictional biography.
Fogg makes a wager of £20,000 (£2 million in 2017) with members of London's Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days or less. He sets out with his French servant Jean Passepartout to win the wager
he is introduced.
In Philip José Farmer's "The Other Log of Phileas Fogg", he is said to be Eridanean, an Earth-born member of the more benevolent of two extraterrestrial factions attempting to control the Earth; Fogg is a member of Farmer's Wold Newton family. Fogg's adventures continue in "Phileas Fogg and the War of Shadows" and "Phileas Fogg and the Heart of Orsra", both by Josh Reynolds, and in "Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming