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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Robinson Crusoe 1,000,000 A.D.
a novel
by John T. Cullen
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In another tank in another cave not far from the last, a young man slept in a tank, awaiting the hour of his birth. As he slept, he dreamed warm and comforting dreams of Maryan and Alex.
Pop goes the weasel! The ice cream truck came around the corner. Impulsively, Alex grabbed Maryan’s hand and ran, towing her along. Always up for adventure, she squealed and ran along with flying pigtails. The truck turned the corner and disappeared from sight. The boy and girl ran after it, but couldn’t find it, and got lost. The morning grew hotter as the sun arched up above the towny roofs, and tar began to run black and liquid on the asphalt streets. They ran and ran, growing tired and scared, until they heard the distant chimes again on a faraway city block: Pop goes the weasel! Now they knew which way to run, to catch the truck, to be borne home grinning and licking cold vapor-wrapped ice creams on sticks. What fun!
The dreams inside the new, good copy of Alex were sweet and efficient. The deoxyribonucleic acid polymers had long unraveled according to their programmed instructions. His genome/phenome had sparkled in the tank like an intricate glass spaghetti about six feet long and roughly in the shape of a human being, at least seven or eight months ago. The ancillary cellulation had grown in a steady process, all at once, dermis and epidermis forming at one level, striated muscle tissue under that, spongy bone at the core, and nerve filaments snaking through the entire structure according to some astronomically complex bioelectrical blueprint. His brain unpacked itself rather like a blow-up rescue boat inside his dura mater. Plop, went one cortex, plop went another, until the whole skull cavity was quite packed, while leaving nice room for the sinus cavities that would soon receive their first breath of air.
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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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