Vincent Rubio
Created by Eric M. Garcia

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

See, VINCENT RUBIO's this hardboiled kinda Los Angeles private eye, right? Whose turf is the mean streets of the City of Angels, okay? And this dick, well, he's not your normal gumshoe. Seems he's a velociraptor.

It seems the dinosaurs faked their extinction 6.5 million years ago, and have been hiding out, wearing latex costumes to disguise themselves as humans, ever since. And if being a dinosaur isn't a tough enough row to hoe, it seems our Vinnie has a dangerous basil addiction. Uh-huh, basil. Other than that, this is just another story of a dick in dinosaur's clothing.

Is it fantasy? Is it sci-fi? Is it a detective story? Who the hell knows?

Okay, I haven't read this one yet -- or any of them, to tell the truth, but it seems to have impressed a lot of folks. Rookie author Garcia landed a big six-figure publishing deal for it, and other deals were soon in the works. Movie rights were up for grabs, and twenty-something Garcia went right to work on his second book. Casual Rex came out in 2001, and a third one in the series, Hot and Sweaty Rex reared its ugly head in early 2004. Along the way, he also wrote Matchstick Men, a novel about con men which was made into a 2003 film starring Nicholas Cage.

UNDER OATH

• "What would the world be like if the dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct?...for one thing, L.A. would be even weirder than it is now." (Dave Barry)

NOVELS

• Anonymous Rex (1999). Buy this book
• Casual Rex (2001) ...Buy this book
• Hot and Sweaty Rex (2004) .Buy this book

TELEVISION

• ANONYMOUS REX
  (2004, Sci-Fi Channel)
  A made-for-cable movie/back-door pilot
  Premiere: December 4, 2004
  Based on the novel by Eric Garcia
  Teleplay by Joe Menosky
  Directed by Julian Jarrold
  Produced by Daniel J. Heffner
  Co-executive producer: Eric Garcia
  Executive producer: Joe Menosky
  Starring Sam Trammell as VINCENT RUBIO
  Also starring Faye Dunaway, Daniel Baldwin, Lori Anne Alter, Tim Burd, Tamara Gorski, Isaac Hayes, Eric Johnson, Jung-Yul Kim, Lee Kim, Stephanie Nicole Lemelin, Anna Silk

RELATED LINKS

• Down Those Mean Skies
  An ever-expanding list of Sci-Fi P.I.'s.

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.