![]() ![]() While attending university Lukyanenko began to participate in sci-fi conventions all over the Soviet Union, which usually had seminars given by prominent authors. His older brother named Oleg later became a psychotherapist and Lukyanenko himself attended Alma-Ata State Medical Institute where he obtained a degree in psychiatry. His mother, Elizaveta, of Tartar origin, was a narcologist. His father, Vasily, a Russian-Ukrainian, was the head of a psychiatric dispensary in Taraz. His family was well educated and heavily interested in issues of the mind. ![]() Sergei Lukyanenko was born in April, 1968 in Karatau, Kazakhstan, in what was then the USSR. His books are heavily known for their psychology and his plots are often driven by his characters having to make or deal with shocking decisions. So I said to myself, why not simply write the kind of book I want to read? Then I did.” With over 40 novels and stories, one movie in production, and four films already released, it is suffice to say he is not the only one who is interested in the kind of book he would read. In an interview with The New York Review of Science Fiction, Sergei Lukyanenko was asked why he started writing literature, to which he responded: “I couldn’t manage to find the sort of book I wanted to read. ![]()
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