>>24861027 (OP)
Our scifi crowd are not like our poltards, so he hasn't caught on as one of their replacement daddies. They seem to be stuck in a loop for Robert E. Howard or HP Lovecraft. Maybe they just hate scifi.
>>24861027 (OP)
He's all right. His gruff crusty-but-benign alpha libertarian self-insert (Jubal, Farnham, Lazarus, Boss in Friday, etc) gets a bit wearisome, and his obsession with group marriage is weird at best, but basically he's a sound fellow.