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 the ensuing two days, Alex tracked the river at a slow but steady pace.
He moved cautiously, judging every tree and every mound before moving on. It was time consuming and energy robbing, but he did not want to casually throw his life away. Nizin had won the first round with his bow and arrow, taking Maryan. He must not score that easily again.
Alex found signs of Nizin’s passage a few times. Once, it was a footprint on a sandbank hidden among reeds. Was it an invitation? A trap? Or just an accident? Hard to say.
Another time, Alex smelled fire and tracked down a tiny campfire buried in soil. Nizin had burned a handful of wood and cooked a bird before burying the remains of his fire and the bones from his meal under wet soil and leaves.
Inexorably, the trail led toward the great wall. By now, the city wall loomed above. It rose in a gray, pitted flat mass up into the clouds. The wall was probably the single largest structure other than the cylinder itself. The wall was a round stone or concrete disk, five miles in diameter, over fifteen miles in circumference, with a surface area of just under 20 square miles. Alex guessed it was probably the largest structure ever built by the ancient humans, other than the cylinder itself.
In places where it was raining, the clouds bled water into the streaked concrete. In some places, pure condensation soaked the concrete brownish blue overlaid with flourishing carpets of moss. Birds sailed gracefully with slow wing-beats in and out of high points in the wall with nesting materials or food for their young.
Alex remembered this about Nizin: he lurked around water. Even on Earth, he’d been a sea creature, coming and going in boats. That little bit of information might be just the edge that Alex needed.
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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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