author
Donald F. Daley
Best known for the science fiction story The Abandoned of Yan, this elusive writer left behind a small but memorable footprint in the genre. Very little biographical information is widely documented, which adds a bit of mystery to the work that survives.
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The Abandoned of Yan
by Donald F. Daley
About the author
Donald F. Daley is a science fiction author associated with The Abandoned of Yan, a story first published in the March 1963 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction. The story has remained available through Project Gutenberg, helping new readers discover it long after its original magazine appearance.
Reliable biographical details about Daley are scarce in the sources I found. Public book and catalog listings point to The Abandoned of Yan as the work most clearly connected with his name, and some reader databases suggest a very small known bibliography.
That limited record makes Daley an intriguing figure for classic science fiction fans: a writer remembered less for a large career than for a single story that continued to circulate and find readers decades later.