Estonian science fiction

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.^[1]

Eesti Ulmeühing is an organization for print science fiction in Estonia that awards annual Stalker prizes.^[2] 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.^[3]

In the 1980s notable were two novels by Eiv Eloon (real name Lea Soo; born 1945^[4]): "Kaksikliik" ('Double Species'; 1981) and "Kaksikliik 2" ('Double Species 2'; 1988). These two novels were only works by Eloon.^[5]

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.^[6]
• 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.^[7]

References

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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