Mats Linder
(September 11, 1945 – )
Mats Linder (who after his marriage to Karin Dannewitz added her name to his and since then is Mats Dannewitz Linder) discovered fandom via the fan news in the Swedish prozine Häpna! during his teens, and, in 1963, published his first fanzine, Gandal.
In 1964, he succeeded John-Henri Holmberg as editor of SF Forum, and turned it into Sweden's at the time best sercon fanzine. Alternating with or in cooperation with his close fan friends Bertil Mårtensson and John-Henri Holmberg he continued to be a major part in publishing the fanzine during the rest of the 1960s; together, the three formed the (in no sense seriously intended) Witterhetssellskapet Din Vän Fandom, publishing a half dozen humorously intended satirical oneshots.
With Holmberg, Linder co-chaired the 1970 and 1974 Swedish sf conventions in Stockholm, Fancon 70 and Fancon 2. In 1975, he started Summa, his main fanzine, inspired by Richard E. Geis' Psychotic/Science Fiction Review; it saw a total of 20 issues through 1987. It is considered the best serious and critical fanzine published in Sweden.
After a period of minimal activity in fandom, he unexpectedly returned in 2020 with the first of a series of yearbooks called Det svenska science fiction-året (The Swedish sf year), listing and to some extent commenting on all sf-related publications, films, activities, etc., in Sweden during each year. So far, volumes covering 2018, 2019, and 2020 have appeared; those covering 2021 and 2022 are in preparation and expected Real Soon Now.
Linder studied at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and professionally has worked as a translator of both literary and technical texts, as a popular science magazine editor, and as a standardization expert both in Sweden and internationally at the European Standardisation office in Brussels.
- Gandal [1963]
- SF Forum (some issues)
- Den suckande tungan [1969] (written by Kjell Borgström, edited and published with John-Henri Holmberg and Bertie Mårtensson)
- Summa [1975–87]
- Det svenska science fiction-året [2020–]
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1969 — Swedish Academy of Science Fiction Award
- 1983 — NasaCon 4
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