Bertil Mårtensson
Bertil Mårtensson (* 1945 in Malmö ; † November 4, 2018 in Helsingborg ) was a Swedish science fiction and crime writer and philosopher.
Life
Mårtensson began reading science fiction in the mid-1950s and was active in the Swedish SF fandom from 1962 . He has edited several fanzines and published numerous literary and critical articles in the 1960s and then again in the 1990s. A first short story, Urhemmet (“Urheimat”), appeared in 1963, and in 1968 his first novel, Detta är verkligheten (“This is reality”). From 1979 Maktens Vägar ("Streets of Power"), a loosely coupled fantasy romance trilogy, appeared. In addition to his science fiction and fantasy books, he also wrote several crime novels. In 1977 he was awarded the Sherlock Prize by the Swedish newspaper Expressen for the novel Växande hot .
He was a lecturer in philosophy and philosophy of science at Umeå University and lecturer in theoretical philosophy at Lund University and author of several textbooks on philosophy.
bibliography
Maktens Vägar (fantasy novel series, revised edition 1997)
- Vagen Bort (1979)
- Vagen tillbaka (1980)
- Vagen ut (1983)
Novels
- Detta är verkligheten (1968)
- Skeppet i Cambrian (1974)
- Samarkand 5617 (1975)
- Adolf and javamännens gåta (1976)
- Mahjongmord (1976)
- Virgin Planet (1977)
- Växande hot (1977)
- Mordet på dr Faust (1978)
- Sadisterna (1979)
- Deral Bågskytt (1979)
- Vakthundarna (1979)
- Vilse (1979)
- Contract med döden (1985)
- Förvandlas (1986)
- Det gyllene språnget (1987)
- Vingmästarens dotter (1992)
Short stories
- Original Hemmet (1963)
- En Telefonhytt: Monologue (1963)
- Buses (1964)
- Den femte resan (1964)
- Draken (1965)
- En fråga (1965)
- Skogen (1965)
- Vilse (1965)
- Den gula blomman (1966)
- Nödlandning (1966)
- Adem och Eve (1967)
- Folkhem (1967)
- Lördagskväll (1967)
- Främlingen (1968)
- Hello goodbye! (1968)
- Stormen (1968)
- Den sista resan (1969)
- Berget (1970)
- Telefonhytten (1971)
- Att döda en sej (1972)
- Mannen i det Höga slottet (1973)
- A Modest Proposal (1974, English)
- Mystisk upplevelse (1975)
- Försoningens dag (1976)
- Memorandum (1976)
- Novell till Scancon 76 (1976)
- Zamborod till Gobeziak (1977)
- Breast idyll (1978)
- En snärt av historiens vingslag (1978)
- Prometheus död (1978)
- Vegetarisk mardröm (1979)
- Circus (1980)
- Glaciärfärden (1980)
- The Fifth Time Out (1981, English)
- Gremmer (1982)
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Rock'n Roll & Martians (1982)
- English: Rock 'n' Roll and the Martians. In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Continuum 4. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31146, 1987, ISBN 3-548-31146-6 .
- De grymma jättarna på Autyrgk (1983)
- Flygande cathedral (1983)
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Android drank inte (1984)
- English: Androids don't think. In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Continuum 2. Ullstein Science Fiction & Fantasy # 31124, 1986, ISBN 3-548-31124-5 .
- Den långa series by professor Rein-Henckelmanker (1984)
- Socrates nya liv (1984)
- Det sista galaktiska kriget (1985)
- Dumbast i Universe (1985)
- Ur en Bergsbestigaren liv (1985)
- Varg i Veum (1985)
- Myxomatosis Forte (1986, English)
- Sång till operative system (1987)
- Vingmästarens dotter (1987)
- De overkliga (1992, fragment of a novel)
- Sanningsmaskinen (1992)
- Marsiansk terapi (1994)
- Vargen (1995)
- Den upprepade väven (1999)
Non-fiction
- Soma & Psyke (1982)
- Praktisk vetenskapsteori (1988, with Tore Nilstun)
- Logic, en introduction (1995)
- Idéer och tankestilar - från Thales till Wittgenstein (1994)
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 284.
- Mitzi M. Brunsdale: Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967. McFarland, 2016, ISBN 978-0-7864-7536-0 , pp. 483 f.
- Calle Dybedahl: Bertil Mårtensson. In: Månblad Alfa 38–40, 1999, 3 parts ( part 3 online , Swedish, accessed May 22, 2018).
- John-Henri Holmberg: Mårtensson, Bertil. In: John Clute , Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 7, 2018.
Web links
- Bertil Mårtensson in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Literature by and about Bertil Mårtensson in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Bertil Mårtensson at Open Library
- Mårtenssons noveller , list of Mårtensson's short stories (Swedish, accessed May 22, 2018)
Individual proof
- ^ RIP Bertil Mårtensson (1945-2018) , accessed November 7, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mårtensson, Bertil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish science fiction and crime writer and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malmo , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th November 2018 |
| Place of death | Helsingborg |