 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. |
 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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7. Mauritania, 1942. What a strange and beautiful world, Tim thought as he made his way along the eerie coast that might be from some other age, even some far planet. Camels trundled majestically on a distant scrub ridge. The golden evening haze had deepened. The tide was going out, and the sand glowed like molten gold. To the left rose a wall of black night, quickly enveloping Africa as the continent spun away from the sun. In the final half hour of daylight, the sea itself seemed on fire, and the sun resembled a tomato sinking into an atmosphere of colorful vegetable juice. Of course that is hunger talking, Tim thought with a faint little grin. He picked his way over sand packed around the protruding ribs of a long-dead wooden ship, maybe an old whaler from the last century, or some Arab dhow. He walked past an elephant’s huge skull that lay staring like an old man’s out of the sand. Its magnificent tusks lay crossed like an x, and the empty eye sockets looked baleful. Now he could see the structure toward which he’d been walking. He could see from a distance that it was a ruined tower, and there wasn’t a human being in sight—a disappointment to be sure, but maybe a blessing in that he wasn’t sure who owned this area. He knew vaguely that all the major European colonial powers had historic claims in this general area, but his knowledge of African geography was embarrassingly scant. Was he anywhere near the colony of former American slaves, Liberia? Or British Gambia? French Morocco or Togo or Mauritania? Spanish Sahara? He’d give anything for a map. Night fell as he traversed the last quarter mile. The full moon lay low on the horizon now, brighter than ever against a starry night sky. Gun dangling heavily, he felt a cold wind starting to blow from the desert as he made his way to the tower ruin. He heard something in the desert—a motor! It sounded as if someone was testing a motorcycle. What a strange thing to do, so far away from civilization. The desert sent its odd smells too, and he caught a whiff of something rank. The ruined tower stood out, bone-white, in the eerie moonlight. |
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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. SRC="http://www.johntcullen.com/pix/readingroom.gif" border="0" alt="go back to the Reading Room" align="center"> |
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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. |
= 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.