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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Synopsis
Earth is dying, choked in a poisonous cloud layer resembling those of Jupiter or Saturn. The last cities are high in the mountains, and survival is tough. Paul Menard and Licia Krings are two survivors who are both victims and perpetrators of the Aeries' harsh laws.
Like a beacon of hope, radio transmissions arrive from an alien civilization barely 25 light years away on a world designated N-60A by listeners on Earth. The radio waves beckon them to a galactic civilization on an Earth-like paradise planet. As a last desperate measure, six colonists are sent on a thousand-year journey in suspended animation to N-60A. These six are the last of their race, for mankind is about to perish as acid clouds finish consuming the Earth. Paul Menard and Licia Krings are among the six last human beings sent in a desperate quest to further the race.
When they arrive on N-60A, the pioneers find themselves in an enigmatic world that not only raises more questions than answers, but poses questions nobody had thought to ask. At least one pioneer has died, and libraries of human lore have been lost, and conflicts spring up among the humans.
Where the pioneers from Earth had expected to find a vibrant intragalactic civilization, they find a metal-poor world that lies in ruins. There is evidence of past greatness, but simple blue-skinned humanoids lead a pastoral existence amid the ruins. Amazingly, they are not frightened of the newcomers from Earth, and in fact they seem to possess telepathic powers and some remarkable knowledge of advanced technology—though they are stone age people.
As deadly conflicts begin to erupt among the humans, and between the humans and their blue-skinned hosts, a vast, ruined city called Avamish beckons for an annual storybook festival. In desperation, the surviving pioneers join a native migration toward the ruined space port, in hopes of solving the mysteries of this brooding world. Along that journey, they discover the fundamental law of enigmas: that there are ever more questions than answers. Not only that, but they learn that there are questions nobody had ever thought to ask—and N60-A becomes a harsh teacher of remarkable truths.
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Copyright © 2005 by John T. Cullen. All Rights Reserved.
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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