Sture Sedolin
(July 7, 1941 – November 20, 2021)
Sture Sedolin was the fan name of Carl Åke Sture Hällström during his most active years in fandom, 1956 through 1961. He discovered fandom in 1956, and joined the small Club Cosmos run by Sam J. Lundwall in a Stockholm suburb; in 1957, also, the Stockholm club Futura.
In 1957, Sedolin started a fanzine, Super, publishing four issues, the last in early 1958, then combining it with Norwegian fan Roar Ringdahl's fanzine Fantasi into Super-Fantasi, which had a further two large issues in 1958. In September 1958, he started a newszine, Sf-fronten, published more or less bi-weekly; from its issue #19 in 1959, after an agreement with James Taurasi, publisher of the U.S. newszine Science Fiction Times, Sf-fronten changed its name to Science Fiction Times, as well, and began translating from the American fanzine in addition to its original content. The Swedish SF Times continued until January 1961, when its number 30 became the last for over two years. Meanwhile, in 1959, Sedolin launched an English-language fanzine, Cactus, which appeared with six issues through early 1961.
In the late Spring of 1961, Sedolin was drafted into the Swedish military, and his fanac ceased abruptly. After his stint in the army, in mid-1962, he instead concentrated on his other great interests, silent movies and classical jazz music, and for the rest of his life worked mainly as a record producer and jazz expert; in this guise, he was known mainly under the name Carl A. Hällström.
From late Spring in 1963, however, he suffered a relapse after meeting the 14-year-old John-Henri Holmberg. Sedolin convinced Holmberg to become editor of Science Fiction Times, and began publishing the fanzine again from July, 1963; Holmberg edited the ten issues from #31 through #40, but tired of the fanzine. Sedolin was unable to find any other fan to take it over. Instead, in 1964, he published a single slim issue of a purported semiprozine, Nya världar ("New Worlds"), but its cost convinced him to give up the notion.
From then on, Sedolin played no active part in Swedish fandom, but occasionally appeared as a motion picture projectionist at club meetings and conventions in the Stockholm area throughout the 1970s. After moving to Uppsala, he stopped attending fan events, but kept in contact with a handful of fans until his death.
- Cactus [1959–61]
- Nya världar [1964]
- Sf-fronten / Science Fiction Times [1958–63]
- Super / Super-Fantasi [1957–58]
| Person | 1942—2021 |
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