Abstract: The Swedish author Sven Wernstrom (b. 1925), mostly known for his political children’s and young adult fiction, is also one of the most prolific and widely read Swedish writers of science fiction (sf). His first attempts in the genre consisted of stray sf elements in some of his aviation novels on ‘‘Flygkamraterna’’ (‘‘The Flight Comrades’’, 1947-1957), and the fullblown sf novel Flygkamraterna korsar rymden (‘‘The Flight Comrades Cross Space’’, 1949), which depicts a trip to Mars and an encounter with an alien civilis...
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