Old Venus

MICHAEL CASSUTT

As a print author, Michael Cassutt is mostly known for his incisive short work, but he has worked intensively in the television industry over the past few decades, where he is a major Mover and Shaker. He was co–executive producer for Showtime’s The Outer Limits—which won a CableACE Award for best dramatic series—and also served in the same or similar capacities for series such as Eerie, Indiana and Strange Luck, as well as having worked as the story editor for Max Headroom, as a staff writer on The Twilight Zone, and having contributed scripts to Farscape, Stargate SG-1, and many other television series. His books include the novels The Star Country, Dragon Season, Missing Man, Red Moon, Tango Midnight, the anthology Sacred Visions, coedited with Andrew M. Greeley, and a biographical encyclopedia, Who’s Who in Space: The First 25 Years. He also collaborated with the late astronaut Deke Slayton on Slayton’s autobiography Deke! His most recent books are the Heaven’s Shadow series, written with David S. Goyer, and consisting of Heaven’s Shadow, Heaven’s War, and Heaven’s Fall.

In the compelling story that follows, he demonstrates that dangers that you ignore are still dangers, and that some warnings had better be listened to, whether you think you know better or not.