Daniel Francis Galouye was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1920. After graduating from Louisiana State University, he became a test pilot during WW II. Later he was one of the first rocket-plane pilots. In postwar days he became a reporter for newspapers. In 1951 his first novelette, “Rebirth,” was published in Imagination. His novels include Dark Universe and Simulacron-3, which was filmed as a television mini-series Counterfeit World by Ranier Werner Fassbinder. Galouye died in 1976.