The bulk of his hundred or so SFF stories have been published in four collections. He has co-authored several SFF stories with other authors, for example with M. He is one of the main writers represented in many science fiction anthologies, including Eesti ulme antoloogia (‘The Anthology of Estonian Science Fiction’, Varrak, 2002), Sõda kosmose rannavetes (‘War in the Coastal Waters of Space’, 2011), Eestid, mida ei olnud (‘The Estonias That Never Were’, 2017), Isaac Asimov 100 (2019), and Eesti ulme XXI sajandil (‘Estonian Speculative Fiction in the XXI Century’, 2020). He has published science fiction, horror and fantasy stories in the magazines Looming and Vikerkaar, in addition to the web magazine Algernon and the anthology series Täheaeg (‘Star Time’). From 1999, Belials is a member of the Estonian Writers’ Union and from 2015, the president of the Estonian Science Fiction Association.Īs a prose writer, he debuted with the horror story Nöörid (‘Ropes’, 1993) in the science fiction and fantasy (SFF) magazine Mardus. In 2003, he graduated with a technology teacher degree from the University of Tartu. From 2000, he also taught rural economy at Luua Forestry School.

Afterwards, he worked at a forestry trade union. After attending the Soviet military service, he began studying forestry at the Estonian Agricultural Academy and graduated in 1991. In 1984, he graduated from Tapa Gymnasium. VII 1966) is a science fiction, fantasy and children’s author, poet, translator, and teacher.īelials was born in Tapa.

Ashinari kroonikad by Veiko Belials