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 central pod of Her Majesty's Space Vessel HMSV Regina Mater sailed into solar orbit far from earth. As the vessel did so, she sent back telemetry to earthbound observers. In the tiny central compartment containing a single old-fashioned computer chip, sensors turned on and indicated to the listeners back on earth that the chip was bathed in just the right amount of light and warmth to create the effect desired by the creators of an experiment that had been designed for another purpose, but had been preempted by this very important cause dear to Her Majesty's heart.
The sensitive machinery recorded an infinitesimally tiny change in how the chip itself was being warmed through. That told the ground controllers, and their eagerly watching queen, that Tedda's hypothesis had been correct.
The femtoworld within the chip was flooding with limitless fountains and oceans and galaxies of energy. Almost instantaneously, it flooded through its critical mass and far exceeded that humble limit. Within that single, central, stable space of that limit, a dying sun flared back to life. A solar system containing an earthlike planet once again bathed in light. That planet's blue seas and tan continents (not earth, different, yet spun off from the same rules) revolved within an oxygen rich atmosphere. Time rolled backward, restoring the piece of the new universe within that critical limit back to the point where it had been the moment Gotha's engineers turned the power off. Billions of light years of space rose like cookie dough full of raisins in all directions, and the femtoverse became a macroverse in its own right. Meanwhile, stability and returned to the planet where the point of attachment had been. That elevator door opening on a nondescript suburban street, that point where Tedda had stepped out in to Monopol City, had briefly been the center of the new universe. Now it quickly became, like its source on Gotha-earth, just another backwater planet, a grain of dust lost amid countless other grains of dust amid the tides of galaxies churning slowly in the vast realms of that new universe.
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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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