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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The trip into the department store was bad enough. It was a gray place of ghosts and dead air. Alex got to the emergency cabinet, dragging his ungainly air bag. Through a window, he saw a space suit staring back at him. It was surrounded by small oxygen bottles arranged bandolier-fashion along the wall inside the cabinet. He broke the glass and reached for the gray suit with its dark faceplate. As he had expected, the material crumbled to dust in his hands. The metal parts stayed intact. In a fit of impatience, he pulled the entire composite cabinet out of the wall and dragged it toward the breach. A great cloud of dust followed him. He pulled the cabinet into the breathable atmosphere of the cylinder. Blankets rose up in a slight wind and floated ever faster, closer, and slammed against the wall to seal the hole he’d made.
He and Maryan cobbled together a breathing apparatus using the metal parts of the fire emergency spacesuit. All he really wanted was the head cover, which they replaced with sticky blanket material. The stickiness hardened in minutes, and he had an eerie-looking globe with a faceplate to cover his head. Any gaskets were long gone in the breathing cylinders and connectors, but most of it was metal and with a little help from the blanket material they had Alex breathing ancient air—a bit stale, but it kept him alive.
Now he was ready to enter the city.
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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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