Jiří Kulhánek

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jiří Kulhánek (born December 31, 1967) is a popular Czech science fiction and fantasy writer. He is probably the bestselling author of the genre in the Czech Republic; the commercial success allows him to tolerate the illegal distribution of his works on the Internet.

In 1996 he was awarded by a prize from the Czech Academy of science fiction, fantasy and horror for promising new authors.

The heroes of Kulhánek's books possess extraordinary or even supernatural abilities (vampires, cyborgs etc.); they are usually assaulted in the beginning of the story and then take refuge from more numerous, though 'normal' enemies. In the end they face hidden leaders, who are even more powerful than the heroes themselves.

Kulhánek's narrative style is swift with lots of black humour and naturalistic descriptions of the violence and is sometimes compared to the style of Quentin Tarantino. The language used in his works is, however, rather simple and the plot quite often has logical flaws.

[edit] Novels

Vládci strachu ("Rulers of fear"), 1995
Cesta krve ("The way of blood"), in two parts: Část I - Dobrák ("Part I - Good man"), 1996 and Část II - Cynik ("Part II - Cynic"), 1997. Third part "Kat" ("Hangman"), concluding the series and connecting them to Divocí a zlí was not written by Jiří Kulhánek, but by anonymous writer named Jafff and distributed on the Internet.
Divocí a zlí ("Wild and evil"), four parts: Čas mrtvých ("Time of the dead") and Hardcore in 1999, Temný prorok ("Dark prophet") and Kříže ("Crucifixes"), 2000
Noční klub ("Night club"), two parts: in 2002 and 2003
Stroncium ("Strontium"), 2006