Michael Cassutt writes for print and TV. His nonfiction books include the biographies of Apollo's Deke Slayton and Tom Stafford: Deke! and We Have Capture. He also wrote Who's Who in Space. His fiction works and screenplays are skewed towards space science or science fiction, having written episodes of The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Stargate SG-1 and Farscape.

Michael has a regular column, "The Cassutt Files" on SciFi.com, the website of the science fiction channel. He is also an adjunct professor at the famed USC film school.

Michael will be selling and signing most of his many books at booth #1 on the conference floor immediately following his talk.

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