Tom Ölander

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Tom Ölander (17 August 1945 - 26 August 2002) was one of the main actors to kick-start an active fannish culture in Finland. He was the prime mover for the second Finnish sf convention King Con in 1989 (20 years after the first one), with the assistance of a boat load of Swedish imports, and regularized the tradition of convention holding by working to institute the biannual Finncon tradition. For these efforts he is domestically known as the "father of Finnish Fandom", and internationally as "Finland's Mr. Science Fiction".[citation needed]

Besides his local efforts, often worked behind the scenes, his great passion was bridge-building between far-flung corners of international fandom.
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