{"id":80,"date":"2015-07-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/07\/29\/i-am-not-any-of-these-other-people\/"},"modified":"2015-07-29T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T16:00:00","slug":"i-am-not-any-of-these-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/07\/29\/i-am-not-any-of-these-other-people\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not Any of These Other People"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently finished listening to Judy Greer’s audiobook of her memoir I Don’t Know What You Know Me From<\/i><\/a> (which is delightful, by the way: my favorite chapter is “My Stupid Trip (Alone) to Spain”<\/a> but they’re all great).<\/p>\n

Now, I’m nowhere near as well-known as Judy Greer, but I also get the “where do I know you from” thing quite a bit. I also don’t know why this happens. (Remind me to tell you sometime about the first time I met Kim Stanley Robinson.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, here is a brief list of people I have been told I look like.<\/p>\n

1. Ted Chiang<\/b><\/p>\n

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Photo © 2014 by Folly Blaine<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n

We are not<\/i> the same person, as you can see… I’M THE ONE ON THE RIGHT OKAY.<\/p>\n

That said, if someone mistakenly invites me onto a movie set and wants to introduce me to Amy Adams<\/a>, I’m not going to say no.<\/p>\n

2. A Native American<\/b><\/p>\n

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(That’s Chief Joseph<\/a>)<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n

This according to a homeless man in San Francisco. He was perhaps not an authority on comparative phenotypic analysis.<\/p>\n

3. The character shown on the cover of China Mountain Zhang<\/i> (Tor, 1992)<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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Cover art by Wayne Barlowe<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n

Okay, that’s actually a fair cop. Here’s a close-up from the 1997 Orb edition<\/a>, which remixes the original artwork:<\/p>\n

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And here’s a picture of me from this year’s Readercon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Photo by Christopher M. Cevasco<\/a><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n

You win this round, Dan Trefethen<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Anyway. I won’t be offended if you come up to me and insist that you know me from somewhere else, even if it’s the first time we’ve ever met. Just don’t turn it into a weird interminable guessing game and we’ll be cool.<\/p>\n

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