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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Monopol City
a novel
by John T. Cullen
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The two spies sat in a van. Parked on a promontory, overlooking West Gotha, was Captain Alton Hedrock of the East Gotha National Information Processing Agency (NIPO). Hedrock was the quintessential tall, dark, and handsome lady killer with a small mustached pressed hard on the rim of his upper lip. With him sat the West Gotha professor of computer information systems he had seduced into becoming a fellow spy—his boss in the West Gotha Special Projects Branch (SPB), Dr. Moira. They sat silently sipping lukewarm coffee that filled the van's dingy cab with a wood-like aroma of artificial cream, too much sugar, and too-thin brew of chicory with a sprinkle of real coffee. Rain pattered on the roof and echoed in the van's half-empty interior. Moira had one cold, trembling hand on his thigh. He considered pushing her hand away, but calculated that she needed reassurance more than she needed warmth.
"How could I let you lead me to betray my fatherland?"
He was absorbed in the distant view of the West Gotha launch port, and almost did not hear his lover speak.
"You're a cool one," Moira said.
He gently patted her icy hand, which gripped his knee, and smiled at her. He was fond of her, well enough, though his duty always came first and she was expendable like any other attractive woman he seduced in the line of work. He raised a pair of small, strong binoculars and scanned the city for reference points only he recognized. Moira had helped calculate the triangulation of three seemingly innocuous microwave patterns that would intersect at a dumb, blind transponder hidden in a tower among the many towers near the launch gantry.
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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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