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The Clocktower Books authors are a diverse and talented group, offering a wide range of fine stories, from adventures on distant worlds to love and murder in the big city. Most of these books are available in both print and digital editions. Anthologies are marked (A). This page is under construction.

New & Exciting: John T. Cullen's Invasion of the Mushroom People, a worthy successor to SF/horror cult classics including Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Night of the Living Dead, and They Live.

Robinson Crusoe 1,000,000 A.D. Terry Sunbord's far-future SF novel now has its own website. The book is a worthy successor to the cult classics spawned by Daniel Defoe's original novel, including Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe, and the Tom Hanks movie Castaway, to name just a few.

Also by Terry Sunbord: Nebula Express (SF) Like Alien and Aliens, this novel takes place on a distressed ship in deep space. This story has plenty of external threats in the form of mudmen who roam the ship's darkened and dripping corridors in search of human prey. However, the real suspense comes in a series of heart-pounding, horrific discoveries that reach into each crew member's soul in ways that you will never guess until you've read this book. Visit the Nebula Express website for synopsis, sample chapters, and just enough to get you going.

Now live by Ann Cymba: Nob Hill (Historical novel/thriller) Based on amazing true facts about the historic months in mid-1945, when two of mankind's most epic wars intersected—World War II and the Cold War. A heroic man and two remarkable women discover each other in wartime San Francisco against a backdrop of intrigue, espionage, and danger. Visit the Nob Hill website for synopsis, sample chapters, and just enough to get you going.

      

Arthur Latchloose is a grumpy old banker who feels left behind by the world, though perhaps he unknowingly helped cause his estrangement from his late wife and their children. He hasn't a friend in the world, not even a pet, and has not celebrated a Christmas in years. He does have an unusual hobby to go along with his considerable wealth. He collects antiquities. Not just old antiques, but rare and valuable items from long ago.

 		Christmas 2006:
The Christmas Clock, a small book with a big heart and lots of imagination. By turns dark, scary, funny, and heart-warming, this is an imaginative romp through realities both real, virtual, of this world, and of the world beyond. Release: Clocktower Books, 1 Dec 2006.

January 6, 2009: I received a personal note from Ray Bradbury, who read my short novel The Christmas Clock, an entertainment and holiday reflection in the spirit of an updated "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens: "John! Read and loved your Clock. Bravo! Ray Bradbury."

He does have an unusual hobby to go along with his considerable wealth. He collects antiquities. Not just old antiques, but rare and valuable items from long ago.

This year Mr. Latchloose has contrived to buy himself a fabulous and strangely powerful grandfather clock originally made at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, and given to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, where it underwent some remarkable modifications using classic alchemy and other arcane arts.

After the fall of the Ottomans during World War I, the clock ended up in possession of an Arab prince near Baghdad, where it acquired its own resident djinni. Now the clock is in the hands of Arthur Latchloose, courtesy a mysterious old Army major, and the djinni offers Arthur a single great wish.

This is the story of how Arthur Latchloose pursues the quest of his ultimate wish in life, nearly drives a powerful djinni out of his mind, and manages to turn half the world upside down. You see, Arthur Latchloose starts out with one thing in mind--immortality--but when he can't have that (according to the arcane rules of the Agency bureaucracy with whom his djinni constantly consults on his cell phone) then Arthur strikes out on a remarkable quest of his own.

The Christmas Clock is just the right story to get you in the mood for a Merry Christmas, offering lovers of SF and dark fantasy just the right mix of holiday wonder, mystery, humor, human drama, and a sentimental payoff worthy of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It's a suspenseful roller-coaster ride, not for the faint of heart, spirit, or imagination. It is definitely not a kid story, but it's good clean fun for any grownup willing to suspend disbelief for a while, and let the imagination go for a wild ride in time and space.

Written especially for a holiday audience by John T. Cullen, author of the suspense thriller The Generals of October (iBooks/Simon & Schuster, November 2004) and the nonfiction history guide A Walk in Ancient Rome (iBooks/Simon & Schuster, March 2005).

January 6, 2009: I received a personal note from Ray Bradbury, who read my short novel The Christmas Clock, an entertainment and holiday reflection in the spirit of an updated "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens: "John! Read and loved your Clock. Bravo! Ray Bradbury."

     

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