Cassutt, Michael
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, TV.

(1954- ) US scriptwriter/producer for Television, and author who began publishing sf with "A Second Death" for Amazing in June 1974. His numerous television credits include serving as staff writer for The Twilight Zone in 1986 and story editor for Max Headroom in 1987; he has also written scripts of Farscape (1999-2003, 2005), Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007) and Andromeda (2000-2005), and has been a writer/co-producer for the SyFy Channel series Z Nation (2014-2018). His regular (every four weeks) column for Science Fiction Weekly (see Online Magazines), "The Cassutt File", focused on sf in the visual media until the beginning of 2010, when the magazine was dissolved into Syfy Wire. His sf novel, The Star Country (1986), set in a balkanized Post-Holocaust USA, competently dovetails two stories, one concerning an Alien who escapes to Earth, the other a commune which has attempted to turn its collective back on the world. Of his Technothrillers, Tango Midnight (2003) is of sf interest for its setting in a Space Station, and for the behaviour of the biotech tycoon aboard the station, who accidentally lets loose a deadly spore into orbit. His Who's Who in Space: The First 25 Years (1987; exp vt Who's Who in Space: The International Space Year Edition 1993) provides biographies of a wide range of people involved in the first years of humanity's move off-planet. Sacred Visions (anth 1991) with Andrew M Greeley is an anthology, by no means pious, of sf about and/or reflecting Religion. [JC]
Michael Joseph Cassutt
born Owatonna, Minnesota: 13 April 1954
works
series
Heaven's Shadow
- Heaven's Shadow (New York: Ace Books, 2011) with David S Goyer [Heaven's Shadow: hb/James Paick]
- Heaven's War (New York: Ace Books, 2012) with David S Goyer [Heaven's Shadow: hb/James Paick]
- Heaven's Fall (New York: Ace Books, 2013) with David S Goyer [Heaven's Shadow: hb/James Paick]
individual titles
- The Star Country (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1986) [hb/Cathy Hull]
- Dragon Season (New York: Tor, 1991) [hb/Alan Gutierrez]
- Missing Man (New York: Tor/Forge Books, 1998) [hb/]
- Red Moon (New York: Tor, 2001) [pb/]
- Tango Midnight (New York: Tor/Forge, 2003) [hb/]
nonfiction
- Who's Who in Space: The First 25 Years (Boston, Massachusetts: G K Hall, 1987) [nonfiction: hb/photomontage]
- Who's Who in Space: The International Space Year Edition (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1993) [nonfiction: exp vt of the above: hb/]
- Who's Who in Space: The International Space Station Edition (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1990) [nonfiction: exp vt of the above: hb/]
- Who's Who in Space: The International Space Year Edition (New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1993) [nonfiction: exp vt of the above: hb/]
- Deke!: US Manned Space: from Mercury to the Shuttle (New York: Tor/Forge, 1994) with Donald K Slayton [anth: biography of Deke Slayton: hb/]
- We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race (Washington, District of Columbia, 2002) with Thomas P Stafford [nonfiction: hb/]
- The Astronaut Maker: how One Mysterious Engineer Ran Human Spaceflight for a Generation (Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Review Press, 2018) [nonfiction: hb/]
works as editor
- Sacred Visions (New York: Tor, 1991) with Andrew M Greeley [anth: pb/Bob Eggleton]
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