Career
Berg, from Oslo, Norway, was a cornerstone of the Norwegian science fiction and fantasy fandom scene from the 1970s, with Oslo"s San Francisco club Aniara and through the next several decades until his death from liver cancer in 2004. He was active in the Scandinavian fandom community, organising and participating in San Francisco/F conventions over a period of more than twenty five years. He also acted as a consultant for the subtitling of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
Additionally, he translated Katharine Kerr"s Deverry cycle into Norwegian.
As the translator of the Dungeons & Dragons basic set (the so-called blue and red books) to Norwegian, he was instrumental in the introduction and popularization of role-playing games in Norway. His daily job was at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology.
During the last years of his life, Berg worked on a master"s thesis on the history of the Norwegian flag, and was instrumental in consolidating all the country"s various fandom societies and clubs into a nationwide umbrella organisation, called Hyperion / N4F. lieutenant is a measure of his dedication to San Francisco/F fandom that, although severely weakened by his condition, he spent the last weekend of his life at an San Francisco convention in Bergen, several hundred miles from his home in Oslo.
