Editing Sam J. Lundwall (section)

==Career==
Lundwall debuted as a writer in the 1950s for ''[[Häpna!]]'' During the 1960s he was active as a photographer and freelance writer. He also produced the LP ''Visor i vår tid''. In 1968, he worked as a television producer for [[Sveriges Radio]] and made a series about science fiction. In 1969, he published his first book-length work on science fiction, ''Science Fiction: Från begynnelsen till våra dagar''. This landed him a job at [[Askild & Kärnekull]] (A&K) as an editor for their science fiction books. He subsequently translated this work into English, where it was published in the US in 1971 as ''Science Fiction: What It's All About''.<ref>''Science Fiction: What It's all About'', Sam J. Lundwall. Introduction by Donald A. Wollheim. Ace, 1971, {{ISBN|0-441-75440-6}}</ref> This work was compared favorably to other studies of science fiction coming out at that time, such as ''[[Kingsley Amis#Literary work|New Maps of Hell]]'', ''[[Brian Aldiss#Works|Billion Year Spree]]'', ''[[Sam Moskowitz|Seekers of Tomorrow]]'', ''[[In Search of Wonder]]'', and ''[[Donald A. Wollheim#Author|The Universe Makers]]''.<ref>"Automata & All That", review of ''Billion Year Spree'' (Brian Aldiss), by Gary Goshgarian, 1975, Duke University Press [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1345075]</ref> In the summer of 1973, he left A&K and worked with [[Delta Förlag]] that he ran together with the literary agent [[Gunnar Dahl]]. Until the end of the 1980s Delta published about 200 science fiction books. During the 1990s Lundwall continued publishing science fiction on his own company, Sam J. Lundwall Fakta & Fantasi.

Lundwall was also the editor of the science fiction magazine ''[[Jules Verne-Magasinet]]'' between 1972 and 2009 and has been active in fandom, for instance he organised conventions in Stockholm in 1961, 1963, 1973, 1975, 1977 and 1979. He has been both a board member and chairman (twice) of [[World SF]] and north European coordinator for [[Science Fiction Writers of America]]. He has also been very productive as a translator.