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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Tedda woke, strangling, falling out of bed. She lay on the floor convulsing as she tried to breathe The cold kiss of her manacles, the clatter of her chains like the rattle of an attacking snake, woke her from the pitch black dream in which she had been submerged. She lay on an icy, coated concrete floor, gasping and wriggling desperately like a fish out of water.
She had a brief, fading vision of a knife, and a terrible episode, a handsome man, but the details were no longer clear. At some level, she knew clearly she was being offered an exchange: peace of mind from her terrible past, in exchange for cooperation with the fatherland.
Unable to breathe, she tried to scream. Her choking, heaving motions brought forth what seemed like acres of green water filled with bits of broken leaf, twigs, bird feathers.
Lights came on. Voices shouted. Boots splashing in water ran toward her. As her lungs emptied, she began to take in racking, sobbing breaths. She lay like a crocodile, hands splayed on the floor, and opened her mouth wide in short bursts, snapping it shut, drawing in sweet oxygen.
She took big gulps of warm air, smelling the rubbery finish on the floor under her palms. She could almost kiss the floor, so grateful was she to be alive, though terrified once again: where am I? she wondered.
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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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