Michael Joseph Cassutt (born April 13, 1954) is an American

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, and

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. His notable TV work includes producing or writing, or both, for '' The Outer Limits'', ''

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'', and ''

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, predominately in the genres of

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. He has also published novels, including the 1986 ''The Star Country'', the 1991 ''Dragon Season'', the 2001 ''Red Moon'' and the 2011 ''Heaven's Shadow,'' in collaboration with

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. In addition, Cassutt contributes non-fiction articles to magazines and is the author of the non-fiction book, ''The Astronaut Maker,'' a biography of NASA legend George W. S. Abbey (2018).

Early life

Although born in

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, Cassutt was raised in

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, where he graduated from Hudson High School. He attended the

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, graduating with a

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degree in radio-television. He then worked as a disc jockey and radio program director and as a network television executive for

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. During his time at CBS he contributed freelance scripts to such television series as ''

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'' and ''The Twilight Zone''.

Career

Television

A full-time writer since 1985, Cassutt was staff writer for the 1985 revival series, ''

'', story editor for the acclaimed ''

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'' series on

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, and writer-producer for the CBS series ''

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''. In the early 1990s Cassutt worked as a writer and producer for '' WIOU'', an ensemble drama starring

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and

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, and then for ''

''. From 1992 to 1993 Cassutt was producer and writer for the ABC police drama ''

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''; he later wrote the two-part premiere of the show's syndicated version with series creator

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. Following his tour on '' The Outer Limits'', Cassutt was co-executive producer for the

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drama ''

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'' and consulting producer on ''

'' and '' Seven Days''. He was executive consultant for USA Network's '' The Dead Zone''. Cassutt's first episode, "The Mountain", was the highest-rated episode of the show's 2003 season; his second, "Total Awareness," which premiered in July 2004, was the only episode of the show ever reviewed by ''

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'' magazine. Cassutt was co-executive producer for SyFy Channel's ''

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'' for five seasons, from 2013 to 2018, contributing ten scripts. He worked on its spinoff, ''

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'' as well. In 2019 he was consulting producer for two 10-episode series based on George R. R. Martin's ''

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'', intended for release on Hulu. He has contributed freelance scripts to ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Andromeda'', and ''

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''. He has developed scripts based on classic

works by writers such as

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, and

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. Among other projects are pilot scripts for

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; a TV movie remake of the 1978 thriller film, ''

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''; and ''Time's Eye'', a

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and Sci-fi Channel miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. In 2018 and 2019 he worked on two potential ''Wild Cards'' series for Hulu; neither effort was produced. Cassutt has also appeared on camera in two History Channel documentaries, ''Disasters in Space'', in 1999, and ''Star City'', in 2002, as well as a 2002

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special about astronauts and test pilots. He appeared on the History Channel series ''

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'' first in the November 2008 episode and again in October 2009.

Other writings

Alongside his career in television, Cassutt has also pursued a career in writing fiction, especially science fiction and fantasy. His first

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, "A Second Death," appeared in the June 1974 issue of ''

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''. Since that time he has published over thirty other pieces of short fiction, many in ''

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'' and in ''

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'' magazine. He also contributed stories to the annual collection, ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'', in the fourteenth and nineteenth editions, and to '' Year's Best SF 15''. He has authored a science fiction novel, ''The Star Country'', published by Doubleday in 1986, and a fantasy novel, ''Dragon Season'', published by

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in 1991. With Andrew M. Greeley, he co-edited an anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories with Catholic themes, entitled ''Sacred Visions'', also published by Tor in 1991. Working with screenwriter and director David S. Goyer (''Batman Begins'', ''Blade'', ''The Unborn'') Cassutt wrote an SF trilogy. The first volume, ''Heaven's Shadow'', was published by Ace (publisher) in July 2011. The second, ''Heaven's War'', appeared in July 2012. The trilogy concluded with ''Heaven's Fall'' in August 2013. In addition to science fiction and fantasy, Cassutt has written thrillers with spaceflight settings, beginning with ''Missing Man'', published in September 1998, to praise from such diverse sources as ''

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'', ''

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'' magazine, and the ''NASA Watch'' website. A sequel, ''Tango Midnight'', dealing with an accident aboard the

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, was published in 2003. His historical thriller, ''Red Moon'', a novel of the dark side of the space race between America and the Soviet Union, appeared in March 2001 and became the subject of an entire article in ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', written by novelist

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. Cassutt is also an experienced writer of non-fiction, not only contributing articles to such magazines as ''Space Illustrated'', ''Space World'', ''Air & Space'' and books such as ''Magill's Survey of Science: Space Exploration Series'', but as the author of the biographical encyclopedia, ''Who's Who in Space''. The book contains biographies and photos of seven hundred astronauts and cosmonauts from around the world, for which Cassutt conducted dozens of interviews over a period of ten years. His monthly column about science fiction television and film, "The Cassutt Files," appeared on SciFiWire.com from 2000 to 2009. He has also taught TV writing at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, and at the University of Oregon. More recently, Cassutt has published several new short stories, in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'', on Tor.com, and in ''The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction''.

Awards and recognition

In 1989, Cassutt won the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award of the Center for Population Options for a three-part episode, "First Love," on the series ''TV 101'', although the series itself was not a success and ran for only thirteen episodes.

Personal life

Cassutt lives in

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with his wife, Cindy, and two children, Ryan and Alexandra.

Bibliography

Novels

*''The Star Country'' (Doubleday, 1986) *''Dragon Season'' (Tor, 1991) *''Missing Man'' (Forge, 1998) *''Red Moon'' (Forge, 2001) *''Tango Midnight'' (Forge, 2003) ;Heaven's Shadow series # # #

Short fiction

;Anthologies (edited) *''Sacred Visions'' (Tor, 1991, anthology edited with Andrew M. Greeley) ;Stories , - , * "A Second Death" – "

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", June 1974 * "The Streak" – " Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine", January 1977 * "Hunting" – "

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* "The Squeeze" – " Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine", January 1981 * "The Free Agent" – "

", August 1981 * "The Holy Father" – " Best of OMNI 6", 1983, ed. Don Myrus * "Stillwater, 1896" – "

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* "A Star is Born" – "

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", July, 1984 * "Legend" – " Wild Cards IV", 1988, ed.

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* "Passages" – " Synergy 4", 1989, ed.

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* "Mules in Horse's Harness" – " What Might Have Been, Vol. 2", 1989, ed.

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and

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* "At Risk" – "

", July 1990 * "Curious Elation" – "

", September 1990 * "Extraordinary Measures" – "

", July 1991 * "The Last Mars Trip" – "

", July 1992 * "Perpetual Light" – " Grails (anthology)" 1992, ed.,

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", 1993, ed.

* "The Folks" – "

", July 1993 * "Night Life" – " Borderlands III", 1993, ed.

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* "The Longer Voyage" – "

", July 1996 * "Generation Zero" – "

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", October/November 1996 * "Jinx" – "

", July 1997, as "Leo Kenden" * "More Adventures on Other Planets" – " Sci.Fiction", January 10, 2001 * "Beyond the End of Time" – " Sci.Fiction", June 20, 2001 * "Storming Space" – "

", 2002, ed.

* "Skull Valley" – "

", October/November 2007 * "Captain Cathode and the Secret Ace" – " Wild Cards IV", 2010, ed.

. This story was not in the 1987 edition of ''

'' * "Pitching Old Mars" - "

", March 2013 * "The Big Bleed" - "

", Tor 2014, ed. George R. R. Martin & Melinda M. Snodgrass * "The Sunset of Time" - "

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", Random House anthology 2015, ed. George R. R. Martin & Gardner R. Dozois * "Timewalking" - "

", November/December 2017 * "Unter" - "

", June/July 2018 * "The Vetting" - "

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", September 18, 2019 * "Banshee" - "

", January 2020 * "Have Spaceship, Will Travel" - "

", Tor 2021 ed.

* "Luna Incognita" - " Joker Moon as "Leo Kenden" * "Aurora" - "

", novelette, March/April 2022 * "Kingsbury 1944" - " Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine", novella, September/October 2022 * "Flicker" - "

", November/December 2022

Non-fiction

*''Who's Who in Space: The First Twenty-five Years'' (G. K. Hall, 1987) *''Who's Who in Space: The International Space Year Edition'' (Macmillan, 1993) *''Deke! U.S. Manned Space from Mercury to the Shuttle'' (Forge 1994, with Donald K. "Deke" Slayton) *''Who's Who in Space: The International Space Station Edition'' (Macmillan Gale, 1999) *''We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race'' (Smithsonian, 2002, with Thomas P. Stafford) *''The Astronaut Maker: How One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation'' (Chicago Review Press, 2018)

Critical studies and reviews of Cassutt's work

;''Heaven's Fall'' *

Notes

Television credits

* ''

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'' (1982) * ''

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'' (1982) * ''

'' (1983) * '' It’s Not Easy'' (1983) * ''

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'' (1985) * ''

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'' (1985) * ''

'' (1985-1987) * ''

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'' (1986) * '' The Centurions'' (1986) * ''

'' (1987) * ''

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'' (1987) * ''

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'' (1988) * ''

'' (1988) * '' WIOU'' (1990) * ''

'' (1992) * ''

'' (1993) * ''

'' (1995) * ''

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'' (1996) * '' Mr. & Mrs. Smith'' (1996) * ''

'' (1997) * '' Seven Days'' (1999) * ''

'' (2000) * ''

'' (2000) * '' Andromeda'' (2002) * ''

'' (2003) * '' The Dead Zone'' (2003-2004) * '' Transformers: Prime'' (2013) * ''

'' (2014-2018)

References

External links

* *
The Michael Cassutt Papers
(31.72 linear feet) housed at th
Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy
of the

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