Sam J. Lundwall

Sam J. Lundwall at Eurocon 2011 in Stockholm

Sam Jerrie Lundwall (born February 24, 1941 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish science fiction writer, literary scholar and translator.

Life

The son of a master mechanic and a mother of German descent, Lundwall started writing science fiction stories at an early age (when he was eleven, the Swedish radio broadcast one of his texts). He studied in Stockholm and graduated as an electronics engineer. He worked as a photographer and was the editor of a book series with fantastic content and, from 1972 to 2009, editor-in-chief of the Swedish science fiction magazine Jules Verne-Magasinet . He founded his own publishing house and translated numerous English titles into Swedish, including those by John le Carré , Isaac Asimov , Robert Louis Stevenson , Karel Čapek , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Ken Follett and Philip Roth , but also the autobiography of Bill Clinton .

He also worked as an artist, singer and record producer. In order to be noticed in the English-speaking world, he translates his works written in Swedish into English himself.

In addition to novels and poems, he also published non-fiction books and bibliographies on science fiction literature.

bibliography

Fiction

• Visor i vår tid (1966)
• No Time for Heroes (1970)
  • Swedish: Inga hjältar här (1972)
• Alice's World (1970)
  • Swedish: Alice, Alice! (1974)
  • German: Alice's world. Translated from the English text by Uwe Anton . 1985. ISBN 3-548-31113-X
• Uppdrag i Universum (1973)
  • English: Bernhard the Conqueror (1973, translation by Lundwall)
  • English: Bernhard's cosmic journey. A science fiction satire. Translated from the English text by HW Fabry. 1987. ISBN 3-548-31149-0
• King Kong Blues: en advice från år 2018 (1974)
  • English: 2018 AD, or The King Kong Blues (1975, translation by Lundwall)
  • German: 2018 or Der King Kong Blues. Translated from the English text by Uwe Anton. Edited and with an afterword by Herbert Franke . 1984, ISBN 3-548-20450-0
• Bernhard's magiska sommar (1975)
• Mörkrets furste, eller, Djävulstornets hemlighet (1975)
• Tio sånger och Alltid Lady Macbeth (1975)
• Guest i Frankensteins hus (1976)
• Mardrömmen (1977)
• Fangelsestaden (1978)
• Flicka i Fönster vid världens kant (1980)
• Crash (1982)
• Tiden och Amélie (1986)
• Frukost bland ruinerna (1988)
• Designer i sten (1988)
• Vasja Ambartsurian (1990)
• Zap! (1992)
• Staden vid tidens ände eller Sam Spade i kamp mot entropin (1993)

Short stories

• The fyrdimensionella rum multiplicator (1965)
  • German: The four-dimensional space multiplier. In: Lichtjahr 1. Das Neue Berlin, 1980.
• Nobody Here But Us Shadows (1975)
  • German: shadow. In: Herbert W. Franke (Ed.): Science Fiction Story Reader 8. Heyne SF&F # 3549, 1977, ISBN 3-453-30443-8 . Also as: nothing. In: Irma Entner, Heinz Entner (eds.): Reunion at Sirius. The New Berlin, 1979.
• Take Me Down the River (1979)
  • German: Take me down to the river. In: Maxim Jakubowski (Ed.): Quasar 2. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Bestseller # 22019, 1980, ISBN 3-404-22019-6 .
• Time Everlasting (1986)
  • German: Everlasting Time. In: Nova, # 15 , 2009.
• A Moderately Dull Day in the Life of a Bored Demi-God. A Short Moral Tale (1988)

Non-fiction

• Bibliografi över science fiction & fantasy 1830-1961 (1962)
• Bibliografi över science fiction & fantasy 1772-1964 (1964)
• Science fiction: Från begynnelsen till våra dagar (1969)
• Science Fiction: What it's All About (1971)
• Bibliografi över science fiction & fantasy 1741-1973 (1974)
• Utopia - dystopia (1977)
• Science fiction: An Illustrated History (1977)
• Utopian och framtidsvisioner (1984)
• Bibliografi över science fiction & fantasy 1974-1983 (1985)
• En bok om science fiction, fantasy, futurism, robot, monster, vampyrer, utopian, dystopier och annat märkvärdigt och oväntat och osannolikt (1993)
• Bibliografi över science fiction & fantasy 1741-1996 (1997)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 273.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 682.
• Karl Michael Armer : 2018 or Der King Kong Blues , in: Wolfgang Jeschke (Hrsg.): Das Science Fiction Jahr 1986 (Vol. 1), Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-31233-3 , p. 580 -583.
• Alexander J. Butrym: Lundwall, Sam J (errie) . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 507 f.
• James Gunn : Lundwall, Sam J (errie) . In: (ders.): The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Viking, New York et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-670-81041-X , pp. 
• John-Henri Holmberg : Lundwall, Sam J. In: John Clute , Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated January 30, 2017.
• Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700–1974 with Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , pp. 287 f.983.

Web links

• Sam J. Lund Wall in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Sam J. Lundwall in the Science Fiction Awards + Database
• Works by and about Sam J. Lundwall at Open Library
• Sam J Lundwall in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Sam Lundwall in Fancyclopedia 3 (English)
• Sam J. Lundwall on FantLab (Russian)