{"id":3819,"date":"2016-07-25T17:22:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esuaxue.havike.eenet.ee\/veeb\/?page_id=3819"},"modified":"2017-05-23T00:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T21:16:01","slug":"stalker-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ulme.ee\/veeb\/?page_id=3819&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Stalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Stalker is Estonian Science Fiction Association (ESFA) award for the best original and translated speculative fiction (i.e SF, Fantasy and horror). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Stalker was created to acknowledge the best original and translated speculative fiction published in Estonian. First Stalker nominees were announced in 1998. Stalkers for fiction are awarded based on the reader\u2019s votes. (The guidelines of voting are described in the Stalker Statute.) This means everyone who\u2019s interested in Estonian speculative fiction can vote!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The award is announced annually on Estcon \u2013 the annual convention of the local fandom. All the voters and fans and other interested parties are very welcome to witness the event!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Today there are different Stalker categories for short fiction, for novelettes and novellas, anthologies and novels. Couple of times ESFA has presented the special service Stalker to people with outstanding contribution in regards of science fiction.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The name Stalker itself is a reference to the <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky <\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">(1971) and the film <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>Stalker.<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> Brothers have always had (and still do) a great influence in Estonian fandom.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The Stalker is represented by the framed diploma and a ceramic clay tablet with a palm print on it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stalker is Estonian Science Fiction Association (ESFA) award for the best original and translated speculative fiction (i.e SF, Fantasy and horror). Stalker was created to acknowledge the best original and translated speculative fiction published in Estonian. First Stalker nominees were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ulme.ee\/veeb\/?page_id=3819&#038;lang=en\">J\u00e4tka lugemist <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ulme.ee\/veeb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ulme.ee\/veeb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ulme.ee\/veeb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ulme.ee\/veeb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ulme.ee\/veeb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ulme.ee\/veeb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"http:\/\/ulme.ee\/veeb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3819\/revisions\/8418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ulme.ee\/veeb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}