Daniel Francis Galouye (11 February 1920 – 7 September 1976) was an Americanscience fiction writer. During the 1950s and 1960s, he contributed novelettes and short stories to variousdigest size science fiction magazines, sometimes writing under the pseudonymLouis G. Daniels.
Born inNew Orleans, Galouye (pronounced Gah-lou-ey[1]) graduated fromLouisiana State University (B.A.) and then worked as a reporter for several newspapers. During World War II, he served in the US Navy as an instructor and test pilot, receiving injuries that led to later health problems. On December 26, 1945, he married Carmel Barbara Jordan. From the 1940s until his retirement in 1967, he was on the staff ofThe States-Item. He lived in New Orleans but also had a summer home acrossLake Pontchartrain at St. Tammany Parish inCovington, Louisiana.
Galouye's novella "Tonight the Sky Will Fall!" was the cover story for the May 1952 issue ofImaginationGalouye's novella "The Fist of Shiva" took the cover of the May 1953 issue ofImaginationGalouye's novella "Secret of the Immortals" was the cover story for the April 1954 issue ofImaginationGalouye's novella "Phantom World" was cover-featured on the August 1954 issue ofImaginationGalouye's novella "The Day the Sun Died" was the cover story for the December 1955 issue ofImaginationGalouye's novelette "Project Barrier" was the cover story for the January 1958 issue ofFantastic UniverseGalouye's novelette "The Big Blow-Up" was cover-featured on the March 1961 issue ofFantastic
... was a Navy pilot during WWII from 1942 to 1946. He graduated from Pensacola Naval Air School, held the rank of lieutenant and was for a time during his service years in charge of a training school in Hawaii for Navy airmen. Immediately after release from the Navy, he began his career withThe States-Item as a reporter, then as a copy editor and joined the editorial department in 1956. He later was named associate editor of that department, retiring in 1967. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Carmel Barbara Jordan Galouye; two daughters, Mrs. Gerald Johan Zomerdijk of Zaandam, the Netherlands, and Mrs. Joseph Edward Ingraham of Covington; and five grandchildren.[3]
His retirement was due to failing health, which was in turn related to injuries sustained during his Navy service. His health continued to decline until his early death at age 56. He died in New Orleans' Veteran's Hospital and is interred at Covington Cemetery #1 in Covington.[4][5]
In 2007, Galouye was the recipient of theCordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, which is co-sponsored by the heirs of Paul Linebarger (who wrote as Cordwainer Smith) andReadercon. The jury for this award recognizes a deceased genre writer whose work should be "rediscovered" by the readers of today, and that newly rediscovered writer is a deceased guest of honor at the following year's Readercon. Galouye was named 6 July 2007 byBarry N. Malzberg andGordon Van Gelder, speaking on behalf of themselves and the other two judges,Martin H. Greenberg andMike Resnick.
The Infinite Man (1973)fix-up from the two "Tarl Brent" stories: "Tonight the Sky Will Fall!" (Imagination, May 1952) and "The Day the Sun Died" (Imagination, December 1955)
Die stummen Schwingen (1967) [Pabel {German}, "Utopia Zukunft" series #313] translated by Nikolai Stockhammer [copyright page asserts that it is a translation of the collection named "Mindmate and other stories"]
"Tonight the Sky Will Fall!" inImagination (May 1952); also seeThe Infinite Man (1973), the editorial in the March 1952 issue ofImagination cites this as the first Galouye story accepted for publication.
"The Reluctant Hero" inImagination (Jul 1952)
"The Dangerous Doll" inImagination (Sep 1952)
"The Levitant" inImagination (Dec 1952)
"Spillthrough" inImagination (Jan 1953)
"Second Wind" inImagination (Apr 1953)
"..Do Us Part" inImagination (Apr 1953), as by Louis G. Daniels
"The Fist of Shiva" inImagination (May 1953)
"Effie" inImagination (Jun 1953)
"So Says the Master" inImagination (Oct 1953)
"Blessed Are the Meekbots" inImagination (Dec 1953)
"Sanctuary" (novelette) inF&SF (Feb 1954), collected inThe Last Leap and Other Stories of the Supermind (1964)
"Disposal Unit" inImagination (Mar 1954)
"Secret of the Immortals" inImagination (Apr 1954)
"Cosmic Santa Claus" inImagination (May 1954)
"... The World is But a Stage" inImagination (Jun 1954)
"Phantom World" inImagination (Aug 1954)
"Supermen Need Superwives!" inImagination (Aug 1954), as by Louis G. Daniels
