Author Biography and Bibliography

Work Experience

Seven Days, Paramount TV for UPN, Consulting Producer (8 episodes), 1998-99

Beverly Hills, 90210, Spelling TV for FBC, Consulting Producer (30 episodes), 1997-98

Strangeluck, MT2/New World for FBC, Co-Executive Producer (16 episodes), 1995-96

The Outer Limits, MGM/Showtime, Co-Executive Producer (6 episodes, including 2-hour pilot), 1994

Mantis, Universal TV, Supervising Producer (development), 1993

Sirens, ABC Productions, Producer, 1992-93

Eerie, Indiana, Hearst Entertainment, Producer, 1991-92

WIOU, GTG Entertainment/Orion TV, Producer, 1990-91

GTG Entertainment, development, 1989-90

TV 101, GTG Entertainment, Producer, 1988-89

Max Headroom, Lorimar, Story Editor, Executive Story Editor, 1987

The Twilight Zone, CBS, Staff Writer, 1986

CBS Television, Program Practices, Children's Programming Executive, 1979-85


Television Scripts

Stargate SG-1, "Tangent," Atlantis/MGM for Showtime, September 15, 2000

Farscape, "Out of Their Minds," Henson for SciFi Channel, July 7, 2000

Seven Days, "EBEs," Paramount TV for UPN, OAD May 12, 1999

Beverly Hills, 90210, "The Fundamental Things Apply, " Spelling TV for FBC, OAD May 13, 1998

Beverly Hills, 90210, "The Nature of Nurture," Spelling TV for FBC, OAD March 18, 1998

Beverly Hills, 90210, "Rebound," Spelling TV for FBC, OAD January 28, 1998

Beverly Hills, 90210, "Ready or Not," Spelling TV for FBC, OAD January 7, 1998

Beverly Hills, 90210, "Deadline," Spelling TV for FBC, OAD November 19, 1997

Beverly Hills, 90210, "The Way We Weren't," Spelling TV for FBC, OAD September 24, 1997

Handy Man, Pilot, Spelling Entertainment for CBS, 1997

The Star Traders, Pilot, Spelling Entertainment for NBC, 1997

Mr. & Mrs. Smith, "The Spaceflight Episode," Warner TV for CBS, OAD November 7, 1996

Sinbad, "Little Miss Magic," Rukhs Productions. for syndication, 1996

Strangeluck, "Lady StrangeLuck," MT2/New World for FBC

Strangeluck, "Wrong Number," MT2/New World for FBC, OAD January 19, 1996

Strangeluck, "The Box" MT2/New World, OAD November 1995

Strangeluck, "Last Chance," MT2/New World for FBC, OAD September 29, 1995

The Outer Limits, "Engines of the Heart," MGM, unproduced

The Sensational She-Hulk, TVM-Pilot for JD Productions/New World/CBS Entertaiment, 1993-1994

Way Station, Pilot, ABC Productions for ABC, 1993-1994

In Harm's Way, Pilot, with Ann Lewis Hamilton, ABC Productions for ABC, 1993-1994

Mantis, "Slaves of Ocean City," Universal TV for FBC

Mantis, "Reign of Terror," Universal TV for FBC

seaQuest, "The Photon Bullet," Amblin/Universal TV for NBC, 1993

Doorways, "The Red and the Gold," Columbia Pictures TV for ABC, 1993

Sirens, "Gal Cops," ABC Entertainment for ABC, April 1993

Sirens, "They Do It Standing Up," ABC Entertainment for ABC, March 17, 1993

Dream Palace, Hearst Entertainment for NBC, one-hour pilot

Eerie, Indiana, "The Loyal Order of Corn, "Hearst Entertainment for NBC, OAD March 22, 1992

Eerie, Indiana, "Tornado Days," Hearst Entertainment for NBC, OAD March 1, 1992

Invisible Man, Orion for CBS, one-hour pilot, 1991

WIOU, "Forty-Eight Minutes," GTG/Orion for CBS, OAD April 1991

WIOU, "Walter and Me," GTG/Orion for CBS, OAD March 1991

WIOU, "Mother Nature's Son," GTG/Orion for CBS, OAD December 1990

WIOU, "The Inquisition," GTG/Orion for CBS, OAD November 7, 1990

Triangle, "Noise," Columbia Pictures TV for CBS

Bones, GTG Entertainment, pilot

This New House, GTG Entertainment, pilot

The Front Office, GTG Entertainment, pilot

TV 101, "Bang Zoom, Part II" GTG Entertainment for CBS

TV 101, "First Love, Part II," GTG Entertainment for CBS, OAD March 4, 1989

TV 101, "First Love, Part I," GTG Entertainment for CBS, OAD February 25, 1989

TV 101, "The Last Temptation of Checker, Part I," GTG Entertainment for CBS, 1989

TV 101, "The Unbearable Rightness of Penny" GTG Entertainment for CBS, 1988

Black Mask, "Modern Love," Propaganda Films for Home Box Office

Beauty and the Beast, "Fever," Witt-Thomas and Republic for CBS, 1988

Probe, "Someone to Watch Over Me," Universal for ABC

Captain Power, "The Observer," Landmark Productions for syndication

Max Headroom, "Families," Lorimar for ABC

Max Headroom, "Neurostim," Lorimar for ABC, 1988

Max Headroom, "Deities," Lorimar for ABC, 1987

Max Headroom, "War," Lorimar for ABC, 1987

Max Headroom, "Security Systems," Lorimar for ABC, 1987

The Wizard, "The Aztec Dagger," 20th Century Fox for CBS, 1987

The Twilight Zone, "Perpetual Light," Landmark Films for syndication

The Twilight Zone, "War Toys," CBS

The Twilight Zone, "The Card," CBS, 1987

The Twilight Zone, "Red Snow," CBS, 1986

The Twilight Zone, "The Wish Bank," CBS, 1985

Aliens, DIC Enterprises/20th Century Fox, 1986

Simon & Simon, "The Cop Who Came to Dinner," Universal for CBS, 1986

Simon & Simon, "Mobile Home of the Brave," Universal for CBS, 1986

Centurions, "The Incredible Shrinking Centurions" Ruby-Spears Enterprises for syndication, 1986

CBS Storybreak, "Grinny," adaptation of the novel by Nicholas Fisk, CBS, OAD July 11, 1989

Misfits of Science, "Sort of Looking for Gina," Universal for NBC, 1985

Rocky Road, "Spellbound," The Arthur Co. for syndication, 1985

Dungeons & Dragons, "The Winds of Darkness," Marvel Productions for CBS, 1985

Murder, She Wrote, "Programmed for Death," Universal for CBS

Alice, "Alice's Hot Air Romance," Warner for CBS, 1984

Alice, "Tommy Fouls Out," Warner for CBS, 1983

It's Not Easy, "Teacher Pets," 20th Century-Fox for ABC, 1983

Gloria, "F-f-father's day," Embassy TV for CBS, 1982

Love, Sidney, "Laurie's Commercial," Warner for NBC, 1982


Film Projects

Officially Dead, original screenplay

Way Station, original screenplay

Arthur C. Clarke's Red Planet, MCA Home Entertainment

Mount Thunder, original screenplay

Return to Yesterday, Development for BatFilm Productions/LightYear Entertainment

Dungeonmaster II: Mestema's Challenge, segment of the

Pulsepounders trilogy, Empire Films. Filmed 1987


Books

Deep Black and Air Force Blue: America's Military Manned Space Programs, Texas A&M University Press, in progress

Red Moon, Forge Books, 2001

Who's Who in Space: The International Space Station Edition, Macmillan, 1999

Missing Man, Forge Books, 1998

Deke!: The Autobiography of Deke Slayton, Forge Books, 1994

Who's Who in Space: The International Space Year Edition, Macmillan/G. K. Hall & Co., 1993

Dragon Season, Tor Books, 1991

Sacred Visions, as editor, with Andrew Greeley and Martin H. Greenberg, Tor Books, 1991

Who's Who in Space: The First Twenty-Five Years, G. K. Hall & Co., 1987

The Star Country, Doubleday, 1986


Radio

Beyond 2000, "Ole Doc Methuselah," Hollywood Theatre of the Ear, 2000

Beyond 2000, "A Sleep and a Forgetting," Hollywood Theatre of the Ear, 1999


Short Fiction

"Generation Zero," Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 1996

"The Longer Voyage," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1996; reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, 14th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Press, 1997

"Night Life," Borderlands III, edited by Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1993

"The Folks," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1993

"A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," Wild Cards: Cut and Shuffle, edited by George R. R. Martin, Baen Books, 1993

"Perpetual Light," Grails, edited by Ed Kramer, Richard Gilliam, and Martin H. Greenberg, FantasyCon Books, 1992

"The Last Mars Trip," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1992


"Extraordinary Measures," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1991

"Curious Elation," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 1990; reprinted in Sacred Visions, edited by Andrew Greeley, Michael Cassutt, and Martin H. Greenberg, Tor Books, 1991

"At Risk," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1990

"Mules in Horses' Harness," What Might Have Been, Volume II, edited by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam/Spectra, 1989

"Passages," Synergy #4, edited by George Zebrowski, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989

"Legend," Wild Cards 4: Aces Abroad, edited by George R. R. Martin, Bantam/Spectra, 1988

"A Star Is Born," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1984

"Stillwater, 1896," Shadows 7, edited by Charles Grant, Doubleday, 1984; reprinted in Mississippi River Tales, edited by Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, August House, 1988; also Heartland Ghosts, edited by Charles G. Waugh, Frank D. McSherry, Jr., and Martin H. Greenberg, Rutledge Hill Press, 1990; also A Treasury of American Ghost Stories, Book-of-the-Month Club/Rutledge Hill Press, 1991

"The Holy Father," The Best of Omni Science Fiction #6, edited by Don Myrus, OmniBooks, 1983

"The Free Agent," The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August 1981; reprinted in Endless Frontiers Volume III: Cities in Space, edited by Jerry Pournelle and John F. Carr, Ace Books, 1991

"The Squeeze," Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, January 1981

"Hunting," Universe 8, edited by Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1978

"The Streak," Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, January 1977

"A Second Death," Amazing Science Fiction, June 1974; reprinted in 365 Short Science Fiction Stories, edited by Jean Marie Stine and Forrest J. Ackerman, Longmeadow, 1996


Nonfiction Articles

"Citizen in Space," Space.Com Illustrated, January 2001

The Cassutt Files, online monthly column for Sci-Fi Weekly (www.scifi.com/sfw/)

"Walter Miller Wrote for Captain Video", SFWA Bulletin

"The Fun We Had," SFWA Bulletin

"Its, Like, You Know, A Job," SFWA Bulletin

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Credits," SFWA Bulletin Summer 1999 [Hollywood Watch #2]

"The Rise, Fall and Rise of the Dramatic Nebula," SFWA Bulletin Spring 1999 [Hollywood Watch #1]

"Return of the Jedi", Sci-Fi Entertainment, April 1999

"TV: 1997," Nebula Winners 32, edited by Connie Willis, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1999

"WAY STATION: The Movie, A Possibly Premature Progress Report," Space and Beyond, edited by Gary Westfal, Greenwood Press, 2000

"Space Colonies," Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Future, Macmillan, 1996

"Fantasy Television," Realms of Fantasy, April 1995

"Apollo Fever," Locus, August 1994

"Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose," Science Fiction Review #7, February 1992

"Sleuthing the Soviets," Science Fiction Review #2, Summer 1990

"Soyuz T-13," McGill's Guide to Space Science, Salem Press, 1989

"Interkosmos Soyuz," McGill's Guide to Space Science, Salem Press, 1989

"Soyuz 9," McGill's Guide to Space Science, Salem Press, 1989

"The Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program," Spaceflight, January 1989

"Classified Astronauts," Space World, November 1988

"US Military Payload Specialists," Orbiter Special #2, August 1987, with David J. Shayler

"Phantom Space Crews," with James E. Oberg, Spaceflight, June 1984

"A Permanent Soviet Space Station: Another View," L-5 News, April 1983

"The Arts: Television," Omni, March 1982

"Gregory Benford," Future Life #24, February 1981

"Captain Quantum," Future Life #21, September 1980

"1980 Nebulas," Future Life #21, September 1980

"Space International," Future Life #19, June 1980

"Laserium," Future Life #14, November 1979

"Explorations: Desert Jewel," Omni, August 1979

"The Military Salyuts," Space World, April 1979

"Arcosanti: A City of the Future," Future Life #9, March 1979

"IguanaCon Report," Future Life #8, January 1979

"SF Awards Guide," Future Life #8, January 1979

"Alan Dean Foster, SF's Hottest Young Writer," Starlog, September 1978

"The Second Flight of 'The Hawk'," Space World, July 1977