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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They walked down the coast, taking their time.
Within a few days, they came to their valley. Scouting carefully, they found no sign of Siirk, except that their cattle were gone.
A new ripper couple had moved into the valley. With the birthing facilities gone, there wouldn’t be room for more than those and one or two cubs. Alex noticed that the rippers looked fat, as if they grew a layer of fat in the winter to keep warm, perhaps even to hibernate. Privately, he planned to kill them sometime during the winter if they needed the food. He eyed their pelts longingly.
Maryan and he settled in somewhat uneasily. Every morning, noon, and evening they went to the beach to scan for signs of returning Siirk. Alex was sure the Siirk wanted his hide as badly as he wanted the rippers’, but maybe the Siirk would not return this far north. The silent sky, with thick layers of gray winter clouds, brooded above as if in enigmatic answer.
Sometimes when Alex and Maryan went hunting for berries in the upper forest, and the fog crept around them in silent shreds, Alex got the feeling that someone or something was watching them. Maryan got the same feeling at times, and she’d stiffen up and stare into the mossy darkness among the trees. Sometimes it was just a bird that would snap aloft from a branch, or a squirrel darting along a tree trunk.
Sometimes it was a snap of a twig, unexplained, magnified in the damp air, never repeated, but hanging there in the silence like a barbed question mark in the gloom of the deep forest glen.
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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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