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= Kudos =

Library Journal had this to say about John T. Cullen's SF novel Robinson Crusoe 1,000,000 A.D.: "Awakening in a cave, Alex Kirk believes that he is the only human living on an utterly changed Earth-until he discovers a bloody footprint in the sand. Sunbord re-imagines Daniel Defoe's classic tale as a far-future survival adventure...Suitable for large libraries."
—Library Journal

Three John T. Cullen novels were picks of the Forbes Book Club: The Generals of October, The Christmas Clock, and Have Blue.

Around 1998, a writer friend emailed me one day with a link, and a note that said: "Check this out." It was a link, in the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, to the SFFH magazine Brian Callahan and I were publishing...0utside: Speculative & Dark Fiction. That's how innovative we were considered at the time. We also received an inch-thick packet of death threats from an 18 name legal outfit representing a big bully magazine of remotely similar name, so we had to change to...see next item.

In 1999, my newly launched writer resource page, Sharpwriter.com (still running, though in some flux) was named 'one of the Web's Top 100 Resources for Writers' by Writer's Digest.

Also in 1999, the magazine Deep Outside SFFH (run by Brian Callahan and myself) made history by becoming the first web magazine of SF/F/H listed in the annual Writer's Market books, in the section for SFFH Magazines, alongside the big pulps like Asimov's and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. This was good validation, at a time when SFWA was still falling all over itself—the Futurians having become the Backwardians—denying that web-published fiction should be recognized, which disenfranchised some good writers.

Deep Outside SFFH (later Far Sector SFFH) received this Event Horizon award from Ellen Datlow in 1998. We were at the time the oldest professional web-only magazine of SF/F/H without print antecedents in the world.

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= Books To Read Free & Full =

Now: Robinson Crusoe 1,000,000 A.D.
Now: This Shoal of Space
Now: Doom Spore San Diego
Now: Lantern Road
Now: Mars the Divine
          Or: The Secret of the Seven Lenses
Now: Monopol City
Now: The Christmas Clock
Now: The Generals of October
Now: Intersect: Danger
Now: Nebula Express
Now: Neon Blue
Now: Have Blue
Now: The Sibyl's Urn
Now: Pioneers

= Screenplays =
(Release, Partial, Synopsis, Treatment)

Now: Nebula Express
Now: Scorpion

According to Karen Wiesner, historian of internet publishing, I was the second person in history to publish serialized novel chapters (Heartbreaker SF/now titled This Shoal of Space, and Neon Blue Suspense, both 1996-1997). She also informed me that by her reckoning, Clocktower Fiction (or Clocktower Books, q.v.) was the world's sixth digital publisher (starting 1996).

Let Me Tell You A Story This is the best possible praise for a writer, and I've gotten it often. Here's a typical example. Years ago, I walked into a copy shop to have a copy of Neon Blue made. Their main copier was broken, and the lady had to make copies a sheet at a time, manually, on a smaller machine. She told me to leave my manuscript (a ream at approx. 500 pp.) on the counter and promised she'd have it for me tomorrow. When I returned the next day, two reams sat side by side—the original and the copy. "Oh!" she greeted me excitedly. "I started copying your book, and my eye just wandered down to the page. Next thing I knew, I was reading it and couldn't stop. I took it home with me and stayed up all night reading it, which I why I'm dead tired today. Great book! Do you have another one I can read?" I'm counting on that spirit gaining this website a lot of readers as you tell your avid reader friends about my books. Thanks, and Happy Reading!

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