Daniel F. Galouye

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antispinward adv. [1966 D. F. Galouye Lost Perception (1968) xv. 140 Vega Jumpoff Station was a huge doughnut that rotated serently about its nodular hub in the quiet of space…. ‘Spinward’ and ‘contraspinward’ were curvilinear directions along the ring. ‘Up’ mean towards the hub. [Ibid. 141] That…was because they were moving all that heavy equipment contraspinward.]
everywhen adv. 1955 D. F. Galouye Day the Sun Died in Imagination Science Fiction 67/2 The square was filling with people again—from everywhere, everywhen…men from the distant future on their weightless sleds, some drifting without sleds; Neanderthal hordes; swarthy savages; troops armed with unfamiliar weapons; Grecian and Roman warriors; Egyptian dancing girls—all terrified, all fleeing from one another. [ellipsis in orig.]
plane n. 1961 D. F. Galouye Mirror Image in Worlds of If Sept. 33/2 If you walk in front of a mirror in this plane, the other you will do the same thing in the other plane.
posthuman n. 1954 D. F. Galouye Secret of the Immortals in Imagination Apr. 65/2 Vella was normal! The realization was a horror in Berek’s mind. He and Alarn, besides Osad, were the only two post-humans. She had not completed the natural metamorphosis and could still die!
shuttlecraft n. 1953 D. F. Galouye Fist of Shiva in Imagination Science Fiction May 25/1 Within a month I don’t want a single shuttle craft hopping between here and the Space Station.
spinward adv. 1966 D. F. Galouye Lost Perception (1968) xv. 140 Vega Jumpoff Station was a huge doughnut that rotated serently about its nodular hub in the quiet of space…. ‘Spinward’ and ‘contraspinward’ were curvilinear directions along the ring. ‘Up’ mean towards the hub. [Ibid. 141] There was a slight increase in weight as spinward jets came to life and sent Vega Jumpoff wheeling insignificantly faster about its hub.
telescanner n. 1962 D. F. Galouye Silence of Wings in Fantastic Stories of Imagination Feb. 46/1 Halfway across the plain, Randolph Saul, director of the Cultural Enlistment expedition, snapped off his telescanner, letting the bulky instrument drop back to his chest.