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.)
Anyway, here is a brief list of people I have been told I look like.
1. Ted Chiang
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Photo © 2014 by Folly Blaine
We are not the same person, as you can see... I'M THE ONE ON THE RIGHT OKAY.
That said, if someone mistakenly invites me onto a movie set and wants to introduce me to Amy Adams, I'm not going to say no.
2. A Native American
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(That's Chief Joseph)
This according to a homeless man in San Francisco. He was perhaps not an authority on comparative phenotypic analysis.
3. The character shown on the cover of China Mountain Zhang (Tor, 1992)
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Cover art by Wayne Barlowe
Okay, that's actually a fair cop. Here's a close-up from the 1997 Orb edition, which remixes the original artwork:
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And here's a picture of me from this year's Readercon:
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Photo by Christopher M. Cevasco
You win this round, Dan Trefethen!
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.
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