About This Book
CLASSIC SUMMER MOVIE IN A NOVEL (SMN) SERIES - Read a classic Summer Movie in a Novel Today. Get out the popcorn, curl up, and keep the light on. It's chilling, thrilling, creepy, old-fashioned fun like a dark, air-conditioned movie theater on hot summer day. Get ready to hug your date (or pillow) and scream. ROBINSON CRUSOE 1,000,000 A.D. - Alex Kirk awakens a million years from now, utterly alone and in terrible danger on a brave new Earth. Mankind has been extinct for eons. Alex is marooned like no human ever before--not just in space, but in time. He is the last of his kind, an afterthought of evolution or fate, and now he must either perish or conquer this world and its many mysteries. Alex is born in a mysterious system of living caves with a terrifying and tragic legacy from a university a million years ago. Even in his birthing tank, he struggles for his life against a creature formed from the same DNA as their long-ago ancestor--the original Alex Kirk, a young student who innocently gave a blood sample to a biochemistry graduate student on campus for a few dollars, one lovely summer day. Who could ever have known that this blood sample would give rise to an endless series of human copies, whose bones and skulls litter a distant future valley full of savage, mutated animals called rippers? This entirely fresh and original novel (Library Journal) innovatively evokes and builds upon Defoe's literary classic. Earth in 1,000,000 A.D. is a planet of surprises, from huge saltwater flowers and the giant butterflies that pollinate them, to the sinister and deadly rippers that lurk hour after hour waiting for Alex to make a single mistake so they can devour him. And there is much more: living caves; armed and marauding aftermen; a curious smudge in space, beside the moon, that encapsulates the secret of what happened to mankind. Starting alone and with nothing except his fierce will to survive, Alex courageously explores, battles, and conquers. He ultimately confronts the enigma of who he is and why the ancient humans shipwrecked him beyond time and space. Is there a woman-Friday to relieve an otherwise lonely, nightmare existence for him? Read this novel and learn the answer. Hint: "strawberry ice cream." This modern science fiction hero, Alex Kirk, is named after the real-life Alexander Selkirk, upon whose true adventures as a sailor marooned off the coast of Chile the 1719 classic by Daniel Defoe was based. Library Journal recommended John T. Cullen's science fiction novel for large libraries, saying: "Awakening in a cave, Alex Kirk believes that he is the only human living on an utterly changed Earth-until he discovers a bloody footprint in the sand. [Cullen] re-imagines Daniel Defoe's classic tale as a far-future survival adventure..." Science fiction fans will also recall the acclaimed 1964 cult classic movie 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars.' Robinson Crusoe 1,000,000 A.D. is part of John T. Cullen's series of books 'A Summer Movie in a Novel,' popcorn fun in the tradition of the great science horror chillers we have all enjoyed with fun, screams, and popcorn.
