Daniel F. Galouye

Born in New Orleans in 1920, Daniel F. Galouye served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was wounded at Pearl Harbor. After the war, he worked in journalism, including at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, before building a parallel career as a science-fiction writer.

He published widely in magazines during the 1950s and 1960s, sometimes using the name Louis G. Daniels. His best-known novel, Simulacron-3 (also published as Counterfeit World), explored virtual reality and artificial worlds long before those ideas became common in popular culture.

Galouye died in 1976, but his work has lasted because of its clear prose, fast pacing, and unsettling ideas. Readers who enjoy classic science fiction with psychological tension and big conceptual twists will likely find him an easy author to keep reading.