Daniel F. Galouye Books in Order

Alone aboard a damaged freighter in hyperspace, Brad Conally struggles to prevent a fatal return to normal space. Another captain’s apparent offer of rescue conceals an interest in the cargo, forcing Brad to confront possible sabotage and fight for his survival.

Salvage workers approaching a wreck on a distant world encounter robots who mistake one of them for a divine creator. Their machine society’s elaborate beliefs complicate the humans’ efforts to recover their ship, whose unstable equipment threatens to destroy them all.

Earth is trapped within a strange lattice of luminous energy controlled by the mysterious Lords of the Psychon. As a feared day approaches when the planet may be pulled into another universe, a remnant of human military survivors attempts to resist.

Descendants of apocalypse survivors live entirely underground, knowing the vanished world only through myth. Jared, the son of a clan leader, searches for the mysterious Light his people revere, undertaking a dangerous journey that challenges the beliefs sustaining their life in darkness.

Douglas Hall helps create an artificial world intended to simulate public opinion, but his colleagues begin disappearing under disturbing circumstances. Investigating whether the system or an outside enemy is responsible forces him to question the nature of the reality he takes for granted.

These science-fiction stories explore unusual powers and possibilities hidden within the human mind. Moving beyond technological spectacle, the collection examines how expanded mental capacities can open new opportunities while producing unsettling consequences, placing ordinary assumptions about thought and perception under pressure.

A spreading epidemic subjects its victims to unbearable pain and terror. Isolation wards, emergency sedatives and squads dispatched to collect sufferers fail to contain the crisis, leaving a frightened society confronting an affliction that appears to offer no escape.

Five connected stories explore identity as technology transfers minds, alters bodies and carries humanity into unfamiliar environments. Questions about copying consciousness, genetic damage and first contact challenge the characters’ assumptions about what makes them human and how they should respond to other forms of life.

The creative force behind existence hides within Milton Bradford, overwhelmed by the complexity of its own universe. With a destructive force now beyond its control, the prospect of simplifying creation raises unsettling questions about what humanity might lose and whether any final confrontation can be avoided.

An expedition lands among the rural estates of an unfamiliar world, where the crew encounters a civilization whose behavior defies their expectations. Making sense of its strange customs becomes the central puzzle of this science fiction story.

Retiree Titus McWorther wants an automatic bathing device for his private planetoid, but a garbled message creates an interstellar diplomatic crisis. Rival governments mistake his request for an opportunity, overwhelming his peaceful home with supplies, visitors and competing efforts to win influence.