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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As time went by, Alex resolved to avoid any more such close calls. He always carried his weapons, and never left his back exposed. He went out each day to hunt and fish, and he always made a point of knowing where the adult rippers of the valley pack were.
In a way it was comforting that they shadowed his every move. There were usually at least three, sometimes five, beasts following him at a distance. As long as they shadowed him, he knew where they were and could feel reasonably safe from surprise attack.
One day as he walked along the beach, under palm trees rustling in a sea breeze, he kept a wary eye on these evolved mammals, whose upper halves reminded him of wild boar, but whose shaggy bellies and clawed limbs were thick and fast like those of bears. They paralleled his path, staring hungrily from a sandbar across a swiftly flowing run of cold, foamy tidal seawater. They were afraid to cross the fast-flowing salty water or they would long since have made a quick meal of him. They had also learned to stay out of range of his deadly, poison-tipped arrows, and there were several piles of bleached bones on their side of the water to remind them what happened when they got into range of his bow.
Alex liked the warmth of the sun. He liked the smell of vegetation and seawater, the wind in his hair, the thunder of surf. He tolerated the raw screams of seagulls, who kited overhead in moist semi-tropical air under billowing white cumulus clouds.
He liked being alive. Despite his predicament, which included the enigma of his own solitary existence in a world where mankind had been extinct for eons, he enjoyed life and planned to cling to it as long as he could.
In a patch of blue afternoon sky among puffy clouds, the full moon floated among spindly palm trees high up on the reddish cliffs covered with vegetation on the landward horizon. The moon’s smudgy lime plains and powdery maria gleamed a faint lemony-silver. Near the moon hung a mysterious little grayish smudge, an elongated cluster of tiny lights and shadows, whose nature Alex could not coax out of his ancient memories.
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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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