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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Synopsis
A menace that has lain neutralized in the Peruvian jungle for millennia is released by an unscrupulous U.S. pharmaceuticals CEO. The Fifth Kingdom (fungi, which includes mushrooms) is one of mankind's most insidious and dangerous fellow tenants on this earth. Dangerous, tenacious, and relentless, fungi seek any opportunity to destroy their enemies.
Lt. Linsey Simon of the San Diego Harbor Police is about to plunge into a horrifying nightmare that threatens the very existence of mankind. A dark, foreboding, at times funny, always creepy novel in the spirit of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this one will keep you reading all night. Thoroughly researched, plausible, and sure to make you think twice before eating your next mushroom.
Jimmy Mendez, 9, and his slightly older cousin, Maribel Walesky, are among the first to witness the horrors of the fungal body snatching as Jimmy's father—or something claiming to be him—returns from the sea. As the children are evacuated, their chopper goes down in a Convention Center area turned into an uninhabitable fungal jungle. With the pilot dead, the kids join forces with Jack Simon.
Linsey Simon and her newspaper reporter husband Jack are thrust into the forefront of those fighting the insidious menace, as are Linsey's boss in a secret Government agency, and a scientist from the University of California at San Diego. What they discover is more frightening than they could have imagined. Not only are the streets at night becoming the haunt of hijacked bodies—this phase is only prelude to the emergence of a far more violent and deadly form called the gill-men. Unless some miracle can be made to happen, the invasion will fan out from San Diego and spread with lightning speed across the world.
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Copyright © 2005 by John T. Cullen. All Rights Reserved.
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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