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
BOOK IV: MARS THE BELOVED
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37: Home—Mon Amour
We rode the transport uptime through the Temporale. We arrived just outside the palace in the royal city. A crowd of Balesso loyalists had gathered to cheer him, and their security people were managing the crowd. There was the smell of a coup in the air. Millions of dupes were tuning in to the news that reported King Lee Upholder XIII was in seclusion. Voreill's media whores had the mob in a frenzy. False and malicious charges were inflating the uncivil public discussion—that the King had deliberately withheld both air and water from some segments of the planet, that he had rigged the elections, that he had lied and done terrible things, and that the savior of the people was Duke Balesso. By the time we arrived, Voreill's terrible work was paying off handsomely. King Lee and his family were torn apart by a mob as they were fleeing the capital. There were reports that a mob was trying to storm the Holy City but had been beaten back by loyal Balesso supporters. Yes, it was a contradiction, but the fools who listened to extremist media couldn't follow a coherent thought pattern. The Holy Mother, a Lee supporter, fled through a secret tunnel while populist cardinals temporarily took command of the Church. I knew she may have been implicit in the murder of her predecessor, so I had mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, nobody knew for sure if she had had a hand in the poisoning, but she drew the bene
As we walked through a temporary tunnel from the Temporale into Mars the Divine, Tuttle stood by the transport and waited for us to clear before he took off. The transport faded from sight.
I was back home on the Divine Mars, a prisoner of Balesso, and probably a dead man.
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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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