eviluniverse.com

Hey, Look, Heroes

J.I.Greco — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:10:12 +0000

New trailers for a couple of the movies I’m looking forward to came out within the span of 24 hours of each other: Star Trek Into Darkness and Man of Steel.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

After watching the trailers, I’m still excited about Into Darkness (and still convinced the bad guy is Kahn, using an assumed name), and finally excited about Man of Steel. Looks like we’re getting a twist on the origin story of Superman — and that’s a good thing.

What with Elysium looking promising, all Iron Man 3 has to do is not suck as hard as 2 and it’ll be a good summer movie season. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Someone Should Build These

J.I.Greco — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:02:48 +0000

In the 1940s, noted scuba diving enthusiast and bald science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke came up with the idea for the telecommunications satellite. Others took his idea and ran with it, culminating in today’s reality show saturated media universe.

In that tradition, I would like someone to run with this idea:

Socks that match themselves.

The socks would contain RFID tags that, when coupled with a sound-making device, would act as homing beacons to direct you via sonic cues to their matching counterpart. All you’d have to do to ensure your socks always match is pay a small child, or if you’re a cheap bastard, train a dog, to use one sock to track down the other.

It would also be great if the sonic cue was some sort of fart noise.

Announcing My Latest Novel, Spill

J.I.Greco — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:01:41 +0000

So, my new novel’s out, just in time for the holidays. It’s called Spill, and as befitting the spirit of the holidays, it chronicles the complete and utter destruction of Earth.

Spill tells the story of Salona Aoki-Washington. On her 16th birthday the terminally-ill head of the world’s largest mega-corporation puts her plan to rid the Earth of its alien overlords and avenge her father’s death into motion, releasing an untested nano-engineered terror weapon against the aliens. While the aliens are chased from the planet, humanity’s celebration is short-lived. Now facing a one-two punch of alien retaliation from orbit, and a rapidly evolving nano-weapon that intends to transform the Earth into something more to its liking, humanity’s last hope of survival resides with a pair of cybernetically-enhanced human collaborators who are more interested in looting than saving the world.

Spill is set in the same universe as Take the All-Mart! and We’re Going to War! (and Rocketship Patrol, too, but a lot more tangentially). It’s a prequel of sorts to Take the All-Mart!, featuring Trip and Rudy’s distant ancestors and possibly the most stupid bunch of aliens ever to invade Earth. It’s available for Kindle and in paperback at Amazon.com now.

Let me know what you think.