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Science fiction and fantasy in Estonia is largely a product of the current post-Soviet era. Although somewhat earlier authors, like Eiv Eloon and Tiit Tarlap [et], do exist.

Eesti Ulmeühing is an organization for print science fiction in Estonia that awards annual Stalker prizes. The awards are named after the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker that was largely shot in Estonia.

In film the works of Raul Tammet have been analyzed.

In the 1980s notable were two novels by Eiv Eloon (real name Lea Soo; born 1945): "Kaksikliik" ('Double Species'; 1981) and "Kaksikliik 2" ('Double Species 2'; 1988). These two novels were only works by Eloon.

A selection of Estonian writers who have won multiple Stalkers

• Veiko Belials
• Lew R. Berg [et]
• Meelis Friedenthal
• Indrek Hargla - Pen-name for Indrek Sootak, he also writes detective fiction that has been translated to English.
• Leo Kunnas
• Tiit Tarlap [et]
• Siim Veskimees [et]

The novel The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk was awarded the Stalker award in 2008.

References

1. Sulbi, Raul. "Estonian science-fiction". Estonian Literary Magazine.
2. "Estonian Science Fiction Association's page on Stalker awards". Retrieved 2019-10-02.
3. Näripea, Eva (2010). "Aliens and time travellers: Recycling national space in Estonian science-fiction cinema". Studies in Eastern European Cinema. 1 (2): 167–182. doi:10.1386/seec.1.2.167_1. S2CID 194103402.
4. "Eesti biograafiline andmebaas ISIK". www2.kirmus.ee. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
5. Sulbi, Raul. "Estonian science-fiction". elm.einst.ee. Archived from the original on 2010-09-11.
6. "Peter Owen Publishers". Archived from the original on 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
7. Stalker Award for Science Fiction 2008. Estonian Literature Centre.

Further reading

• Andrus Org. Eesti ulmekirjanduse žanrid ja nende poeetika. (The Genre System of Estonian Fantastic Fiction and its Poetics, PhD thesis). Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2017. (Dissertationes litterarum et contemplationis comparativae Universitatis Tartuensis 16.)
• Andrus Org. The Dimensions of the Contemporary Science Fiction Novel on the Basis of Examples from Estonian Literature. – Interlitteraria 2004, No 9, pp. 226–237.
• Andrus Org. Fantastic fiction in Estonian literature: fields of genres and their sources of influence. In: Martin Carayol (Ed.). Le fantastique et la science-fiction en Finlande et en Estonie. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012, pp. 35–45. (Bibliothèque finno-ougrienne 23.)

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