Jiří Walker Procházka

Jiří Walker Procházka
Jiří Walker Procházka
Born	(1959-08-18) 18 August 1959 (age 65) Kutná Hora, Czechoslovakia
Nationality	Czech
Other names	George P. Walker
Occupation	Writer
Known for	Science fiction, detective fiction

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]

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

External links

• Jiří Walker Procházka in The European Library (66 items in the period 1990–2016)