Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author, artist, and historian of ideas. He has published a number of books in Swedish as well as English, both fiction and non-fiction. Among the latter are books about astrology, the cosmology of the Greek philosophers, the Japanese martial arts, and an encyclopedia of life force concepts. His novels explore existential subjects from stoneage drama to science fiction, but lately stay more and more focused on the present. He has written some plays for the stage and the screen. In the history of ideas he studies the thought patterns of creation myths, as well as Aristotle’s Poetics. He is also an aikido instructor, 7 dan Aikikai.