Ondřej Neff
[Image:Ondrej Neff.jpg|thumb|Ondřej Neff (2007).]
Ondřej Neff is a Czech science fiction writer and journalist. He is the founder of, one of the earliest and most popular Czech daily news/comments websites, and, a website about digital photography for amateurs.
His father Vladimír Neff was a popular writer, author of many historical novels.
Neff had two children with his first wife: a son, David, born in 1970, who works as a photographer for Mladá fronta DNES and a singer; and a daughter named Irena, born in 1979, murdered by her husband on 23 February 2008.
Ondřej Neff has supported Czech President Václav Klaus in his fight against environmentalism. He described his opinions, for example, in the article Klaus versus the Warming Ideology.
Works
- 1978 Holky se perou jinak
- 1980 Klukoviny a tátoviny
- 1981 Tajná kniha o fotografii
- 1983 A včely se vyrojily
- 1987 Večery u krbu
- 1991 Černobílé hodinky
- 1997 – 1999 ''Neviditelný pes''
Non-fiction
- 1978 Podivuhodný svět Julese Vernea
- 1981 Něco je jinak
- 1985 Tři eseje o české sci-fi
- 1987 Všechno je jinak
- 1999 Jak blufovat o sci-fi
- 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 ''Klon''
Own sci-fi writings
- 1984 Jádro pudla
- 1985 Vejce naruby, a collection of short stories, including:
- * Bílá hůl ráže 7,62 – a horror story describes an alien invasion through hijacking a visual signal coming from an interstellar probe captured by the aliens. The modified signal triggers a process similar to a buffer overflow in a human brain, rewriting the victim's DNA and turning it into a copy of the alien attacker. A very similar theme was used independently by David Langford in the short story "BLIT". The invasion is thwarted with the help of a blind stunt driver trained to shoot on sound, who, to add to the conflict, happens to be a pacifist.
- * Zelená je barva naděje – describes an invention of an apparatus used for reading animal's minds and presenting them to humans in image form. The inventor tests the device on his friends' aquarium, causing much distress and anger because the apparatus shows the aquarium fish dreaming about killing and eating the humans, and dominating the world; as a consequence, all humans who saw the experiment feel they will never be able to trust any pet animal again.
- * Strom – a vision of a society after a near-miss ecological catastrophe, which was avoided only thanks to draconian laws of environment protection that put the nature and its preservation well above human life. The characters, last dwellers of a small village, are fighting a losing battle for their homes against a growing forest, as the laws prevent them from harming any tree.
- 1987 Čtvrtý den až navěky
- 1988 Měsíc mého života
- 1989 Pole šťastných náhod
- 1989 Čarodějův učeň
- 1990 Zepelín na Měsíci
- 1991 Vesmír je dost nekonečný
- 1991 Šídlo v pytli
- 1992 – 1995 Milénium – three parts: Země ohrožená, Země bojující, Země vítězná
- 1997 Reparátor
- 1997 Bůh s. r. o.
- 1998 Tma
- 2003 Pravda o pekle
- 2003 Tma 2.0
- 2004 Dvorana zvrhlosti
- 2006 Rock mého života
- 2007 ''Tušení podrazu''
Scenarios for comics of [Kája Saudek]
- 1988 Arnal a dva dračí zuby
- 1990 Štěstí, Slavkovská romance, Příhoda na mostě
- 1992 Silvestrovský speciál
- 1993 Noc upírů
- from 1996 comic strip ''Bart sám doma''
Works for radio
- 1984 Portonský dryák
- 1985 Počkej, Hektore
- 1987 Velká solární
- 1988 Ano, jsem robot
- 1991 ''Havárie Drakkaru''
Dramatization
- 1990 Zvíře z hvězd
- 1996 ''Válka světů''
Verne's books
- 1988 Michal Strogov aneb Carův kurýr
- 1991 Honba za meteorem
- 1986 Cesta kolem světa za 80 dní
- 1995 20 000 mil pod mořem
- 1996 ''Vynález zkázy''
Other
- Comics Pérák.
- Many fan convention talks, in the 1980s especially about English-language SF
- Translation of William Gibson's Neuromancer
- SF stories in anthologies: Lidé ze souhvězdí Lva, Železo přichází z hvězd, Lety zakázanou rychlostí, Let na Měsíc etc.