Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus
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science fiction
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fantasy
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The genre's roots lie in oral traditions, ...
writer. He is among the most successful contemporary authors of the genre in the Czech Republic. He tolerates to some extent the unauthorised distribution of his works on the internet.
The heroes of Kulhánek's books possess extraordinary or even supernatural abilities (
vampire
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s,
cyborg
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Novels
* ''Vládci strachu'' ("Rulers of Fear"), 1995
* '' Cesta krve'' ("Blood Path"), in two parts: ''Část I - Dobrák'' ("Part I - Good Guy"), 1996 and ''Část II - Cynik'' ("Part II - Cynic"), 1997. Third part "Kat" ("The Hangman"), concluding the series and connecting them to ''Divocí a zlí'' was not written by Jiří Kulhánek, but by another Czech writer, Martin Moudrý (also known as ''Jafff''), and was distributed on the Internet.
* ''Divocí a zlí'' ("The Wild and Cruel"), four parts: ''Čas mrtvých'' ("Time of the Dead") and ''Hardcore'' in 1999, ''Temný prorok'' ("Dark Prophet") and ''Kříže'' ("Crosses"), 2000
* ''Noční klub'' ("The Night Club"), two parts: published 2002 and 2003 (English translation and publication 2008 and 2011)
* ''Stroncium'' ("Strontium"), 2006
* ''Vyhlídka na věčnost'' ("Expecting Eternity"), 2011
Short stories
* Smrt je nejlepší lékař ("Death is the best doctor") – published in brochure ''Zámek naděje (Castle of Hope),'' 1994
* Je 7:00, pro dnešek nejvyšší čas zabít svého prvního policajta ("It's 7:00, high time to kill my first cop today"), 1994 – entree into universum of ''Divocí a zlí''
* Soumrak ("Dusk"), 1995
* Koruna věčnosti ("Crown of eternity") – short story about Conan the Barbarian, 1996
* ''Povídky ("Short stories"),'' 2007
Awards
In 1996 he was awarded the Prize of the Czech Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror for promising new authors.