Sergei Lukyanenko is a famous modern Russian science fiction writer, whose books have been filmed more than once, the owner of many prestigious literary awards and the idol of a huge army of fans of his work. The writer's works are distinguished by interesting ideas, complex drama of relationships and moral choice of heroes and light, lively language. Lukyanenko continues to write today.
Biography
Sergey Lukyanenko was born on April 11 in Kazakhstan, in the maternity hospital of the small town of Karatau, Zhambyl region, in 1968, in a family of hereditary doctors. It is not surprising that the child of a psychiatrist and narcologist chose the same education for himself as his older brother Oleg, who became a cardiologist.
After graduating from school and receiving a well-deserved gold medal, Seryozha went to study in Alma-Ata, entered the medical university and received a specialty as a psychiatrist. And in 1996 he moved to the capital of Russia.
Writing career
From early childhood, Sergei read avidly all the books that fell into his hands, and tried to write in his youth, during his student days. The first story of the writer was published in the Zarya magazine. It was a small sketch called "Violation", written in 1987.
Knights of the Forty Islands is certainly one of Lukyanenko's most fascinating novels, translated into 12 languages, and was released in 1992 by the publishing house Terra Fantastica. This incredibly subtle, dramatic fiction with an amazing plot received the unique Sword of Rumata prize at the Wanderer festival - the writer was awarded a real sword, which he is still proud of.
Since then, the science fiction writer has more than 35 novels, and some of them are included in the most interesting cycles: "Deeptown", "Dream Line" and others.
The Night Watch series turned into a film directed by Bekmambetov and became the leader of the box office during its debut. Since then, new parts have been added to this cycle, including a lot of works by fans, sometimes almost as good as Lukyanenko himself in originality and fascination.
Sergei has many books written in collaboration with eminent prose writers of our time. In his works, not only the world of the future is described - the genres in which the science fiction writer creates are quite diverse. This is medieval fantasy, and the theme of zombies, and reflections on the future, and cyberpunk, and alternative worlds, and superheroics.
Personal life
Lukyanenko is an exemplary family man and a father of three children. The family has two sons and a daughter, Nadezhda, who was born in 2012. The writer saw his love, his wife Sophia, while still a student. The girl studied at the same university as a psychologist. The family of the writer lives in Moscow, Sergey collects figurines of mice and is crazy about his pets - Yorkshire terriers.
How Lukyanenko lives today
Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko is very concerned about the degradation of language, creative ideas, dreams of the emergence of artificial intelligence and even decided on an interesting experiment - in collaboration with a neural network, he wrote a story in the style of Gogol. And yet the science fiction writer claims that a machine or computer will never replace the creativity of a living person, remaining nothing more than a convenient tool. Lukyanenko's political views are quite contradictory and sometimes cause a real flurry of angry discussions.
