Ukrainian speculative fiction

[3][4][5] Writing in Ukrainian is, however, becoming increasingly common in the 21st century, also in part due to tensions and conflicts between Ukraine and Russia.

[4] As in many other countries, the history of Ukrainian science fiction and fantasy goes back to the beginning of the 20th century,[1] although it draws inspirations from earlier works.The first speculative fiction books created by authors from Ukraine were Ivan Kotlyarevskyi's a novel in verse "Eneida" in Ukrainian (1798) and Yan Pototsky's novel "The Manuscript Found in Saragossa" (1804) in Latin.

Among those are fantasy & horror works of Orest Somiv and Mykola Gogol or magic motifs in the poetry of the 19th-century Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka.

[16] Traditionally, science fiction was much more popular in Ukrainian literature than fantasy, but that began to change in the recent decades.

[3] Fantasy and science fiction fandom in Ukraine has been described as strong, as evidenced by the fact that Kyiv has been a host of the Eurocon twice (in 2006 and 2013).

Among the most popular Ukrainian science fiction and fantasy writers in Poland and Russian-speaking countries are Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko.