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Science fiction, man. I love it. But comic books make me want to hate it. I mean, I get that comic books aren’t really a literary medium. They can be, but they’re read mostly by people avoiding the commitment and sometimes challenge of a more rigorous, if still speculative, format, namely prose. Now I’m not going to pretend that prose Sf&F is always a step up from comics and, in fact, there’s pretty much an equal ratio of turds to gold (there’s some kind of law for this, I think). But so much more effort is put into the “science” part of science fiction in literature than it is in comics, and that seems to be an unfortunate result of the assumption (perhaps correctly) most comic book writers make that their audience isn’t interested in “harder” sci-fi or fantasy. But they try at it anyway sometimes,...

Repo Men is generating considerable buzz amongst genre fans. What we have seen thus far displays substantial promise and it is somewhat of a happy accident that a debate over health care rages on just as it is about to hit theaters nationwide. Of course, no one is discussing the ethics of selling artificial organs for profit (and then collecting on debts with any means necessary) at the moment, but it is hardly far-fetched to imagine the possibility. The movie is based on Eric Garcia's novel "The Repossession Mambo." Garcia, who co-wrote Repo Men with Garrett Lerner, has also written the novels "Anonymous Rex," "Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys" and "Matchstick Men," which is also an excellent Ridley Scott film. Mr. Garcia...

Daniel Baldwin and Sam Trammell are set to topline Sci Fi Channel's two-hour backdoor pilot/movie Anonymous Rex. Based on Eric Garcia's comedic mystery novels, the Fox TV Studios-produced project centers on Vincent Rubio (Trammell), a high-tech private investigator, and his partner, Earnie Watson (Baldwin), who, along with hundreds of others on Earth, are in fact dinosaurs (in Rubio's case, a velociraptor, and in Watson's, a triceratops). In the mythology of the books, dinosaurs never became extinct. Instead, they have evolved to be 6 feet tall and have integrated themselves into modern society by disguising themselves with human-looking latex costumes.