Timelessness

Kristýna Sněgonová

*1986. A young writer who came out of nowhere a few years ago, only to start winning genre competitions and winning prize after prize. She is a multiple Lady of the Order of Fantasy and Bearer of the Sword, winner of the Karel Čapek Award, and winner of the Mloka Award, as well as the Seer and other competitions. She began her literary career by winning the Brahmin Udder Contest with her short story Freaks Should Stick Together (2009) and after a creative hiatus during which she took up sports, she wrote countless short stories and novellas, because the Udder Award is a liability. She also wrote a short story for her family's enjoyment from The Vault of the Mad Brahmin, which became the basis for Blood for a Rusalka - it was called Bloodskin and aroused only general disappointment at the time that it was not a girls' novel about the loss of virginity. Her work can be found in many anthologies, she first appeared in the magazine Pevnost as the winner of the competition "Seeing" with her short story "Zadostiučinění" (Pevnost 03/2015), and in 2017 she repeated it with her short stories "O snílcích a snovačích" (Pevnost 03/2017) and "Sobotní izmenna" (Pevnost 12/2017). Her short stories still regularly appear in anthologies, whether in the trilogy of anthologies In the Shadow of Empire (2017), In the Shadow of the Apocalypse (2018), In the Shadow of Magic (2019), or in many other anthologies such as Lockdown (2021), Beauties and aliens: Pulp Stories (2021), The Law of the Gene (2022), The Transformations of Kafka's Prague (2024). Together with Lukáš Vavrečka she is the editor of the anthology Hlubiny města (2023). But Kristýna did not stay only with writing short stories. After the successful novel Blood for a Rusalka (2018), which will see a second edition in 2021, went to Brno with her fantasy novel Zřídla (2019), followed by the sci-fi series Cities - an original post-apocalyptic world, where people have attempted to save civilization with elevated cities protected from danger, that its inhabitants have long forgotten. This series consists of the novels City in the Clouds (2020, 2023), Earth in Ruins (2021, 2024) and World in Storm (2022). Then in 2024 she returned to her first novel world, a world of fairies, blood and old magic, with Blood for the Wildling. Since 2020, he has been co-writing with František Kotleta the popular space opera Legion, about a group of people who resist alien domination and oppression. Within this series she is the author of the following episodes: Amanda, Nerds and dudes, Lord of the Mountains, A dead box, At the end of the universe, Peace Roulette.