Daniel F. Galouye

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Daniel Francis Galouye (* 11. February 1920 in New Orleans , Louisiana ; † 7. September 1976 ) was an American journalist and science fiction - writers .

Life

Galouye studied at Louisiana State University and was a test pilot in the US Navy from 1942 to 1946 during World War II . He graduated from the Pensacola Naval Air School and was a lieutenant instructor at a Navy pilot school in Hawaii. In 1945 he married Carmel Barbara Jordan, with whom he had two daughters.

Immediately after his military service, Galouye worked as a reporter for the daily newspaper States-Item in New Orleans. From 1956 he was editor of this newspaper until he retired in 1967.

He published his first short story Rebirth in 1952. Sometimes he used the pseudonym Louis G. Daniels for his short stories , which appeared in various science fiction magazines. Of his five novels , Dark Universe (1961) and Simulacron-3 (1964) were the most successful.

In 2007 he was posthumously awarded the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award for forgotten or no longer adequately honored science fiction authors.

Novels

Simulacron 3

The story takes place in the future. It tells of the experiences of the computer scientist Douglas Hall, who works on a giant simulation computer from TEAG ("Test AG"). This contains a copy of the real city with ten thousand programmed individuals. Market research studies are possible with the device. When his boss Hannon Fuller allegedly had a fatal accident, Hall does not believe the official version. In addition, his best friend disappears from a party shortly afterwards. Nobody wants to have known him. Hall sets out to search for traces and clues in the TEAG computer and in reality. Strange help comes to him from above through Fuller's daughter Jinx. Together with her he overcomes the “great programmer” who created the world he knew as a simulation. In the end, an overvoltage makes it one level higher. The leading ideas of the story are the Cartesian sentence “I think, therefore I am” and Zeno's paradox . Thinking creates the certainty of existence - the simulation units in the simulated computer in a simulation are also conscious living beings. Zeno's paradox with Achilles, who can never catch up with the turtle despite its slowness, provides the key to the endless series of simulations. The novel was filmed twice, first in 1973 by Rainer Werner Fassbinder under the title Welt am Draht and in 1999 by Josef Rusnak ( Production : Ute and Roland Emmerich ) under the title The 13th Floor .

Dark universe

In his first novel, Dark Universe , Galouye describes a future earth after a devastating world war. In underground caves and bunkers, people have survived as members of some tribes who only know the darkness and rely mainly on their hearing and smell. Only legends still exist about the light of the sun, while demons in the legends bear the names of radiant chemical elements. Yet a young man, Jared, seeks the darkness in hopes of finding the light. He comes across radioactively modified people who can see heat. Ultimately he gets into the bright outside world, which he is more afraid of than his fellow men. In this novel, Galouye also describes human echolocation before it was actually developed by Daniel Kish .

Spacecraft ›Nina‹ reports

After a global nuclear disaster, a mysterious disease strikes people on earth. There is chaos, and global order is to be restored by an international security agency. Special agent Arthur Gregson is assigned to investigate a rebellious organization and finds out that the unknown disease is in fact a new form of perception. His client wants to use this new perception, however, to achieve absolute world domination and Gregson deserted to the rebels.

Works

Novels

  • Dark Universe , 1962, ISBN 3-548-31072-9 , Dark Universe , 1961.
  • The Trapped Earth , 1965, Goldmann , Lords of the Psychon , 1963.
  • Welt am Draht also: Simulacron Drei also: The 13th Floor , 1965, ISBN 3-462-02826-X , Counterfeit World also: Simulacron-3 , 1964.
  • When the Sun Died : The Day the Sun Died , 1964, ISBN 3-548-31138-5 , The Day the Sun died , 1965.
  • Battle of the Giants , 1966, Moewig , The Fist of Shiva , 1966.
  • Space ship Nina reports , 1966, Goldmann, A Scourge of Screamers also: The Lost Perception , 1966.
  • World of Darkness also: Secret Project Lichtmauer , 1966, Pabel , Phantom World also: Reburth , 1967.
  • The Secret of the Immortals , 1968, Pabel, Secret of the Immortals , 1968.
  • The Infinite Man , 1984, ISBN 3-548-31082-6 , The Infinite Man , 1973.

Story collections

  • Descent into the Maelstrom , 1984, ISBN 3-548-31085-0 , Descent into the Maelstrom ., 1961
  • Beyond the Barriers , 1975, ISBN 3-442-23190-6 , The Last Leap: And Other Stories of the Super-Mind , 1964.
  • Basis Alpha , 1976, Pabel, Recovery Area and other stories , 1966.
  • The Silent Wings , 1967, Pabel, Mind-Mate and other Stories , 1967.
  • The Realm of the Tele-Dolls , 1975, ISBN 3-442-23198-1 , Project Barrier , 1968.

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personal data
SURNAME Galouye, Daniel F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galouye, Daniel Francis (full name); Daniels, Louis G. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and science fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH 7th September 1976
Place of death New Orleans , Louisiana