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Jiří Walker Procházka

Jiří Walker Procházka

Czech writer

Jiří Walker Procházka (born 18 August 1959), also known by the pseudonym George P. Walker, is a Czech sci-fi and detective fiction author. In 1989, Procházka described himself as "the permanent political prisoner" because he had lived since his birth in communist Czechoslovakia.[1]

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Career

His professional career started at the Research Institute for High Voltage Electronics (VÚSE) in Prague in 1982. He then worked for some time in a printers, during which time he wrote his first stories (around 1985). Afterwards, Procházka worked as an IT specialist, later becoming a writer and publisher.[2] He was part of a wave of new authors that emerged from 1980 to 1990.[3] His story Rox'n'Roll was written in 1988. Ondřej Jireš [cs] described Procházka as "a striking element in the Czech sci-fi waters" whose "highly imaginative stories became examples for a good many followers."[4] According to Boris Hokr, Procházka was an author that opened the door to Czech sci-fi, alongside Ondřej Neff.[5]

Books

  • Ken Wood a meč krále D'Sala (Ken Wood and the Sword of the King D'Sal), Ivo Železný, Prague 1991, first part of a fantasy series published under the name of George P. Walker. New edition 2008 published by Triton Prague.
  • Tvůrci času (Creators of Time), Winston Smith, Prague 1991, sci-fi anthology.
  • Ken Wood a perly královny Maub (Ken Wood and the Queen Maub's Pearls), Ivo Železný, Prague 1992, second part of a fantasy series published under the name of George P. Walker.
  • Hvězdní honáci (Star Cowboys), Altar, Prague 1996, sci-fi novel, galactic space-opera, awarded by the SF, Fantasy and Horror Academy Award, ISBN 80-85979-07-1[6]
  • Jablka z Beltamoru (Apples from Beltamor), Ivo Železný, Prague 2002, 63rd part of the sci-fi serie Mark Stone.
  • Totální ztráta rozměru (Total Loss of Dimension), Millenium Publishing, Prague 2003, sci-fi stories collection
  • Agent JFK 1 - Pašerák (Bootlegger), Triton, Prague 2005, with Miroslav Žamboch,
  • Agent JFK 2 - Není krve bez ohně (Where there's blood, there's fire), Triton [cs], Prague 2005, with Miroslav Žamboch[7]
  • Agent JFK 3 - Meč a tomahawk (Sword and Tomahawk), Triton, Prague 2006, with Miroslav Žamboch,
  • Agent JFK 4 - Armády nesmrtelných (Armies of Immortals), Triton, Prague 2006, with Miroslav Žamboch[8]
  • Agent JFK 11 - Podhoubí smrti (Breeding Ground Called Death), Triton, Prague 2007,
  • Agent JFK 27 - Dlouhý černý úsvit (Long Black Dawn), Triton, Prague 2012,
  • Druhý krok nikam (Second Step to Nowhere), Brokilon 2011, ISBN 978-80-7456-007-1 (free sequel to Total Loss of Dimension)[9]
  • Agent JFK 33 - Soumrak světů (Twilight of Worlds), Triton, Prague 2014, ISBN 978-80-7387-794-1, SF stories collection
  • Mrtvá šelma - Souřadnice zločinu 1 (Dead Beast – Coordinates of Crime), Plus, Prague 2015, with Klára Smolíková, ISBN 978-80-259-0382-7[10][11][12]
  • Šest nevinných (Six Innocent), Pavel Mervart, Červený Kostelec 2015, ISBN 978-80-7465-161-8, with Josef Pecinovský, David Zábranský, Přemysl Krejčík, Jan Sviták, Lukáš Vavrečka
  • Tajná dvojka A+B. Zločin mezi dinosaury Klára Smolíková; Jiří Walker Procházka; Viktor Svoboda, Fragment, Prague 2016[13]

Literary awards

  • 1992 Ludvík Souček Award
  • 1993 Certificate of Merit in the Karel Čapek literary contest
  • 1997 Science-fiction, Fantasy and Horror Academy Award
  • 1997 Ikaros Award
  • 2002 Science-fiction, Fantasy and Horror Academy Award
  • 2004 Science-fiction, Fantasy and Horror Academy Award
  • 2015 Science-fiction, Fantasy and Horror Academy Award
  • 2014 Grand Master of the SF genre
  • 2015 Aeronautilus Award

References

  1. [1]
    Kdo je kdo v české a slovenské sci-fi. Nová Vlna. 1999. ISBN 80-85845-07-5.
  2. [2]
    "Jiří Walker Procházka". Databáze knih (in Czech). Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  3. [3]
    Neff, Ondřej (1995). Encyklopedie literatury science fiction. AFSF. ISBN 80-85390-33-7.
  4. [4]
    Jireš, Ondřej (2010). Hvězdy české sci-fi. ARGO. ISBN 978-80-257-0270-3.
  5. [5]
    Hokr, Boris. "Brakobraní: Co hlásají krvaví proroci božského Kulhánka?". Aktuálně.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  6. [6]
    "Jiří Walker Procházka – Hvězdní honáci (audiokniha)". Pevnost (in Czech). Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  7. [7]
    Procházka, Jiří Walker; Žamboch, Miroslav (1 January 2005). Není krve bez ohně (in Czech). Triton. OCLC 85164864 – via WorldCat.
  8. [8]
    Armády nesmrtelných (Book, 2006) (in Czech). OCLC 85549362. Retrieved 28 April 2017 – via WorldCat.
  9. [9]
    "XB-1 " Výsledky vyhledávání " jwp". XB-1 (in Czech). Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  10. [10]
    "Dva už na obklíčení města stačí! (rozhovor)". XB-1 (in Czech). Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  11. [11]
    Smolíková, Klára; Procházka, Jiří Walker (21 February 2017). Mrtvá šelma (Souřadnice zločinu I) (in Czech). Plus, Albatros Media a.s. ISBN 9788025904022. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  12. [12]
    Procházka, Jiří Walker; Smolíková, Klára (1 January 2015). Mrtvá šelma: souřadnice zločinu 1: Tábor (in Czech). Plus. OCLC 908822529. Retrieved 28 April 2017 – via WorldCat.
  13. [13]
    Smolíková, Klára; Procházka, Jiří Walker; Svoboda, Viktor (1 January 2016). Tajná dvojka A+B (in Czech). OCLC 970633185. Retrieved 28 April 2017 – via WorldCat.
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