Propping up a dodgy memory

I "helped" sell some space adventure books on Friday night, including John Scalzi's Old Man's War (go read it, shoo) and this is what happened on FB:

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There's a Stargate-shaped hole* in my fannish viewing. I watched the movie in 1994 (OMG 15 years ago?) and remember being disappointed. I failed to bond with any of the characters except the yak. A decade and a half later even the yak is getting fuzzy**.

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Fan of John Scalzi's Old Man's War universe books and the blog Whatever, seek same for confirmation of a creeping suspicion. (And yes, asking this question over at Whatever would be more sensible, and I may try it some day).

I'm about half way through The Last Colony having finally got my hot little hands on a local paperback. Has it struck other readers that John Perry is John Scalzi, Jane is Scalzi's wife Krissy, and that Zoe is quite clearly Athena? I'm reading this wonderful SF work of space aliens, guns and politics, and it feels like I'm reading the family blog. Just, on a particularly interesting day.

Anyone else getting that? I'm too fuzzy to proof this properly now so I may not be making much sense.

I don't know what the next couple of Swancon committees have in mind, but John Scalzi has indicated an interest in GoHing here.

See http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=285#comments, comments 14, 15 and especially 19

*BOING BOING BOING*

Heck, for him I'd fly places, within reason :-)

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