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...nothing too political, too technical.” Out of all the departments Stern visited, he was most intrigued by the Special Forces. “Their job just seems really fun, like an action movie,” Stern says enviously. The life of an SF is understandably glamorous, as they get to live in the abandoned palaces of former royalty. One night, Stern went over to Saddam’s old palace with some SF’s he had befriended. After “loosening up over a few beers...
...life as an SF is like a video game, Stern certainly got a chance to hold the joystick. He says his best times in Baghdad involved the detonation of explosives. After the SF’s confiscate Iraqi weapons, they destroy them on an abandoned range. After the SF’s collected a cartload of AK47’s, Stern was allowed to explode the weapons with a remote control bomb. “I’d see a cloud of smoke and then I’d hear the explosion,” Stern says...
Verne and Vonnegut, Borges and Burgess, Lessing and LeGuin--they all wrote science fiction that was taken seriously during their lives. Philip K. Dick's work, no less serious or searching, was confined to the ghetto of SF (that's the short form, folks--never, ever sci-fi). He stalked through earthly life, through five wives, a drug addiction and a nervous breakdown, seeing his SF novels published in tatty Ace paperbacks, his other fiction regularly rejected. When he died, in 1982, at 53, mainstream readers didn't know Phil Dick...
...Mann (4), Kropf (6). B—Magaletti (1). HR: H—Hendricks (4), Mann (3). B—Nichols (3). SH: B—Magaletti (7). H—Seminara (2). SF: B—Lynn (3). SB: H—Mager (3), Carter (1). Pitchers: H—Nyweide W, 4-2 (4.1 IP, 2 ER, 5 K), Ronz (0.1 IP, 0 ER, 1 K), Wahlberg (2.1 IP, 0 H, 5 K). B—Stern L, 6-3 (6.0 IP, 3 ER, 9 K). Attendance...
...SF: In some ways, we're trying to go against the grain of most bands. We're not commercially geared in any sense. I can't think of any other band today that only exists live. With any other band, you can just buy their album, and there's this expectation that are their concert they'll be recreating this perfect quintessence of what's represented on the album...