I don't know if I count really...  I mean I absolutely first heard about it on the Gateworld interview with Mitch Pileggi (he was reading the books at the time of the interview and thought they were great).  The whole idea of a open wizard PI in present time intrested me a lot.  But with RL constantly demanding immediate attention I forgot about it until I saw the early commercials for DF on Sci Fi.  So I had nothing pressing and wanted something to read, I went online and held the first 3 books (well, minus SF as it seemed to be missing).  I absolutely devored them, and read all but SF, PG, and DB before watching the series began.  So you can say that I knew about the books but it wasn't until the series that pushed me to reading them...

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