Sture Sedolin

Sture's legal name was Carl Åke Sture Hällström (July 7, 1941–November 20, 2021); "Sture Sedolin" was the name used for his fanac during his most active years in fandom, from 1956 through 1961. He discovered fandom in 1956, and joined the small Cosmos Club run by Sam J. Lundwall in a Stockholm suburb. In 1957, he started his own fanzine, Super, publishing four issues, the last in early 1958, then combining it with Norwegian fan Roar Ringdahl's fanzine Fantasi into Super-Fatasi, 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 US 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, Sture Sedolin had launched an English-language fanzine, Cactus, which appeared with 6 issues through late Spring, 1961.

From the late Spring of 1961, Sture Sedolin was inducted in 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 in silent movies and in 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 him 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 semi-prozine, 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 any fan events, but kept in contact with a handful of fans until his death.