John T. Cullen has authored over 20 books, including The Generals of October (Simon & Schuster, 2004)—pulse-pounding political-military suspense fiction set in a near-future U.S. Constitutional crisis.
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John T. Cullen also writes screenplays, including one for Nebula Express (adapted from his SF novel) and the violent, darkly glistening, utterly strange tale of a serial killer in Scorpion.
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Doom Spore
a novel
by John T. Cullen
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The air down around the Gaslamp District, around Petco Park baseball stadium, around the Convention Center and the great harborside hotels, was filled with clouds of drifting spores.
From Broadway downtown to the edges of National City, a frightened but orderly evacuation was taking place. Military and police occupied every street corner. The National Guard in their familiar MP uniforms were out in the thousands to make sure there was no panic, no looting, no fighting. School buses were marshaled to carry out those unable to walk due to age, extreme weight, illness, or similar problems. There would be a primary collection center in the former Jack Murphy Stadium at the far end of Mission Valley. Plans were to establish yet another evacuation center in El Cajon, and to have these center leapfrog each other until the need to evacuate was past.
Mushrooms of all shapes grew to fantastic sizes, some by now as tall as a grown man. There were a thousand different shapes, too. Some looked like huge button mushrooms on thick short stems. Others had thin straight stems with wavy caps. Other caps were rounded, or resembled Asian peasant caps. Some even looked like umbrellas that some imaginary wind had turned inside out—those, in particular, showing their brown gills greased with sticky spores. Clusters of fine green mushrooms grew together on stems curving away from each other. Many mushrooms had no visible stems, but attached like scallops or sconces or wavy clam shells around gutters and garden walls.
Through it all streamed a steady flow of men, women, and children bringing what belongings they could carry. Many were evacuees from luxury harborside condos. Some were restaurant workers leaving at the end of their shift, or hotel maids, clerks, messengers, and parking valets. A few were staggering or coughing. A few more came by on makeshift stretchers carried by unarmed Navy men half in, half out of uniform.
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John T. Cullen has been a pioneer in digital publishing since 1996. He is listed by digital publishing historian Karen Wiesner as the sixth digital publisher in history, and the second person to publish serialized chapters on line (starting 1996). His web magazine Deep Outside SFFH was the first to be listed along with the professional pulps in Writer's Market (1999) and was at one time the oldest professional SFFH magazine in the world. John T. Cullen continues to explore new ways to adapt the primordial power of storytelling to emerging new digital opportunities as the Third Millennium springs to light.
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A Walk in Ancient Rome John T. Cullen (Simon&Schuster May 2005) innovative, acclaimed walking & teaching tour—explore every corner of the Imperial capital at its zenith almost 2000 years ago; learn its history—smell and taste the very air of Classical Rome.
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= Summer 2008 =
A Walk in Ancient Rome, Second Edition John T. Cullen (Clocktower Books 2008)—New! Many new maps; images from the unique scale model of AndréCaron of Quebec. Read this innovative book, with its acclaimed walking & teaching tour. Explore every corner of the Imperial capital at its zenith almost 2000 years ago; learn its history. Smell and taste the very air of Classical Rome. The new edition is bigger, like an atlas. Some people have carried the 1st edition with them to Rome, and found it greatly enhanced their experience.
Dead Move: Kate Morgan and the Haunting Mystery of Coronado, 2nd Ed. John T. Cullen (Clocktower Books, San Diego, Summer 2008). John T. Cullen has tackled the mystery of the ghost at the Hotel del Coronado. He has assembled a dramatic new theory about how and why she violently died on the back steps of the hotel in 1892. A first-class ghost story and whodunit wrapped in one.
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