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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Mars the Divine
a novel
by John T. Cullen
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28: Cyborg Makeover
I know little of what happened in that surgery around midnight, between the Boulevard of the Hyades and the Avenue of the Pleiades. I was under anaesthesia and floating in a honeyed liquid warmed and thinned by the rapid and incessant beating of insect wings of bees droning on a wooden bee-house wall. Much was metaphor and illusion, but I had a clear sense of my neural and skeletal systems being enhanced once again with finer strips of stronger metal and longer lengths of green and amber films that could process faster than the racing mind. The surgeon herself was a statue of ivory and ebony in checkerboard squares. She had shiny silver lips and eyes as deep and dark as an azure evening in the tropics. Her long, thin fingers wove and knotted, tied and cut, with smartness and expertise. Nearby, I saw the beached vessels, the furled sailboats, that were Trini and Sindi, getting the same treatment. Their bodies glowed like the sunset, their curves and nipples speckled and bubbling like clouds racing on a mixed-wind day. The assistants in these surgeries were tall and thin like elephant tusks leaning motionlessly. That, by the way, was my first anomie—the byproduct of the drugs they used on us to heighten our amortality. You will hear more of this later—a mix of dread and wonder, disintegration amid structuring.
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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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