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 set up shop in a weird little corner of what she came to call the Intereal. On the one hand, her rectangular room at the end of a long, dusky corridor was cozy once the fatherland got lights and furniture in there. It was dry, and there was no moisture dripping from the walls, nothing like that. On the other hand, it was just plain claustrophobic. She spent hours sitting hunched over her desk with one hand holding her forehead, and the other holding a pencil, as she scribbled out dense sheets of tiny, crabbed calculations and notes joined by serpentine lines and arrows. She would sometimes lose her concentration for no apparent reason, and sit up with a jolt, maybe with a shout. It was the loneliness, the dry silent blanket of nothingness, that permeated this deep coalmine of artificial reality. That must be it—the loneliness, the near-death presence of nothingness. She'd sit holding her hands over her mouth, and tremble. She'd wait until her wildly pounding heart calmed, and the tears dried up in the corners of her eyes. She really missed the boisterous, fun people in the Bit Cave. She missed playing board games, laughing, smelling popcorn, drinking tea, exchanging jokes by e-mail.
She continued her daily routine, otherwise, walking with Lindy to and from work. Their conversation became a tiny bit more strained, for reasons Tedda didn't fully grasp. Was Lindy somehow uneasy to be too close to her, now that this thing had happened? It was a faint, subtle change, and Tedda told herself, maybe I'm just imagining things. Or maybe she just feels bad for me.
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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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