Daniel F Galouye, Winner of the 2007 Cordwainer Smith
Rediscovery Award
Daniel F. Galouye was the 2007 choice for the
annual Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award awarded at
Readercon each year. The award is "designed to focus new
light on an important science fiction or fantasy writer
whose major work has in recent years fallen into
undeserved obscurity," to quote Robert Silverberg at the
first award presentation.
This year, we welcome a new panel of judges: Martin H.
Greenberg, Barry Malzberg, Mike Resnick, and Gordon Van Gelder.
They were chosen by the outgoing panel, who were John Clute,
Gardner Dozois, Scott Edelman, and Robert Silverberg. Many
thanks to our original four judges and welcome to the new
ones.
So... what about Daniel F. Galouye? Born in 1920, he was
just a little younger than Paul Linebarger. And like my father,
he died in his 50s... in 1976. he had been a Navy pilot during
World War II and his early death was related to head injuries
from the war.
Galouye lived in New Orleans, and worked for many years for
the New Orleans States-Item as an editor. He
wrote for GALAXY and FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION in the
1950s and 1960s. His best-known science fiction novels:
- The 1961 Dark Universe was nominated for a
Hugo in that year and only narrowly lost the award to
Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.
- The 1964 Simulacron-3, which was the basis of
the film The Thirteenth Floor. I saw a comment in
my websurfing that this novel also had an effect on The
Matrix. (This novel was also known as Counterfeit
World, but my research didn't clarify when or
where.)
Here is a way to see what is at Amazon.com for Galouye.
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titles.
Simulacron-3 is available as an inexpensive
ebook:
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Galouye, Daniel - Simulacron Three |
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