Hans Stefan Santesson

(July 8, 1914 – February 20, 1975)

Hans Stefan Santesson was a New York editor, writer, anthologist, and reviewer.

He edited the selections of the Unicorn Mystery Book Club in the later 1940s and early 1950s, the magazines Fantastic Universe from 1956 to 1960, the American edition of the British New Worlds Science Fiction in 1960, and the American version of The Saint Mystery Magazine from 1959 to 1967.

He also edited several SF and fantasy anthologies, among them The Fantastic Universe Omnibus (Prentice-Hall, 1960) and Flying Saucers in Fact and Fiction (Lancer, 1968).

Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1956 — 1956 Best Book Reviewer Hugo nominee
• 1970 — 1970 Open ESFA
• 1974 — Infinity 74
• 1976 — Sflaggcon (posthumous)

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1914—1975

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