
Lukyanenko also acknowledges his early imitation of the styles of Vladislav Krapivin and Robert Heinlein. Lukyanenko on Lukyanenko: Lukyanenko’s Web site says he defines his genre as action-packed fantasy or fantasy of the journey.

The Word on Lukyanenko: Anatolii Gusev wrote in Knizhnoe obozrenie that Lukyanenko’s Last Watch is decent urban fantasy with a detective novel plot, saying, “Of course this isn’t the book that’s going to change your life-if you’re older than fifteen-but the reading is very light and fun.” Lukyanenko’s Places: Born in Karatau, Kazakhstan, lives and works in Moscow. He has been known to keep pet mice and has a collection of hundreds of mice made of materials ranging from crystal to chocolate. Psssst………: Lukyanenko initially went into medicine because he’s from a family of doctors his wife is a psychologist. Some of his books have been adapted into board and computer games. Lukyanenko in 1999 became the youngest winner of the Aelita award for contributions to the development of the fantasy genre. Lukyanenko was first published as a fiction writer in the late 1980s, making a breakthrough in 1998 with his first Watch book, Night Watch, an urban fantasy novel. Film adaptations have been wildly successful: the film version of Day Watch, the second installment of Lukyanenko’s Watch sextalogy, broke Russian box office records. The Lukyanenko File: Sergei Lukyanenko, a trained psychiatrist, has won numerous prizes for his science fiction and fantasy novels, many of which have also been bestsellers.


Quick Study: Sergei Lukyanenko is one of Russia’s bestselling, best-loved, and best-honored science fiction writers.
