Dammprisen and the Ministry of Culture's award for best youth book for Azur - Planet of the Captains (Azur – kapteinens planet) and in 1979 he received The International Board on Books for the Young People Award, and the Ministry of Culture's award for best translation of children's book. Bing and Bringswaard received the Rivertonprisen in 1979 for the television series Blind Passages and the 1980 Ministry of Culture's award for best cartoon. He died at the age of 69 in 2014. Bibliography Fiction 1967 – Around the sun in a circle (short stories, with Tor Åge Bringsværd) 1969 – Komplex (short stories) 1969 – To lose a spaceship: a game of chance (play)(with Tor Åge Bringsværd) 1969 – Lunarium: the book of the moon (with Tor Åge Bringsværd) 1970 – The soft landscape (novel) 1970 – Red planet (science fiction anthology) (with Tor Åge Bringsværd) 1972 – Sesam 71 (short stories) (with Tor Åge Bringsværd) 1972 – East of the sun" and "West of the moon (science fiction anthologies) (with Tor Åge Bringsværd) 1972 – Scenario (novel) 1972 – Electrical Fairytales (editor, short stories for children) (with Tor Åge Bringsværd) 1973 – Me - a machine: cybernetic fables (short stories) (with Tor Åge Bringsværd) 1974 – Knotted Writing (short stories) 1975 – Azur - Planet of the Captains (children's book, first volume in The Chronicles of the Starship Alexandria) 1976 – Zalt - Planet of the Steamlords (children's book, second volume in The Chronicles of the Starship Alexandria) 1976 – The Mad Professor (short stories) (with Tor Åge Bringsværd) 1977 – Backwash: a science fiction anthology (with Tor Åge Bringsværd) 1980 – The new adventures of Marco Polo (plays, with Tor Åge Bringsværd, later adapted to a three-part television series on NRK) 1980 – Shooting Stars (science fiction anthology) (with Tor Åge Bringsværd) 1982 – Mizt - Planet of the Ghosts (children's book, third volume in The Chronicles of the Starship Alexandria) 1984 – Flood (children's book) 1984 – Doppelgangers (novel) 1984 – The book is dead! Long live the book! (essays) 1985 – Tanz - Planet of Riddles (children's book, fourth and final volume The Chronicles of the Starship Alexandria) 1986 – Hvadata? Pieces of literature for the information society (short story) 1988 – As sure as data (short stories) 1988 – Shadows of the moon (children's book) 1988 – Dust to dust (play) (with Tor Åge Bringsværd)