David Galouye - Dark Universe

His attention remained steadily on her as she came closer. Overhead, the bird sang its delightful song and the poignant beauty of the refrain strengthened the appreciation his eyes felt for the girl as she drew up before him.

The delicate, refined impressions he was receiving of Della struck him as being soft as the music of the melodious stones, vibrant like the mighty voice of a great waterfall muffled into modesty by distance.

She extended her hand and he clasped it.

“We’ll stay out here and see what happens — together,” Jared said, heading back toward Thorndyke and the others.

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.