They also own two Yorkshire Terriers named Busya and Varya. He still collects toy and souvenir mouse figures. This became a running joke in Russian fandom. They also kept pet mice (the first one was called Stremitelny - Quick, and the next pair was Mulder and Scully) for some time, and their offspring were 'awarded' to friends and fans. Their second son, Daniil, was born 23 November 2007. Their first son, Artemy Lukyanenko, was born in February 2004. degree in child psychology, and she taught psychology at the Russian State University for the Humanities until 2003. She is a fellow psychologist, and she graduated from Kazakh state university. Sergei Lukyanenko met his future wife, Sonya, early in 1990, while still at university. Lua error in a at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Thus, in 1996 Lukyanenko moved to Moscow, where he currently resides. However, by the mid-90's the situation improved drastically, but soon his growing popularity as a writer made frequent trips to Russia increasingly burdensome. He often attributes the rather grim tones of his works to those financial and personal hardships. This was one of the hardest periods of Sergei's life, as his family struggled to make ends meet. In 1993, he was appointed deputy editor at a local Science Fiction magazine, where he worked until 1996. During this time he became an active member in Russian fandom, visiting conventions and attending seminars all around the Soviet Union. He had started writing as a student, and had just started making money from it. After graduation in 1992, he worked at a hospital in Alma-Ata, specializing in child psychiatry, but soon abandoned his practice, as already poor Soviet physician wages plummeted with the fall of the Soviet Union, making it virtually impossible to support a family. After graduating from school, he moved to Alma-Ata, and enrolled at the Alma-Ata State Medical Institute in 1986 majoring in psychotherapy. Lukyanenko was born in Karatau, Kazakhstan, then a part of the Soviet Union, to a Russian- Ukrainian father and a Tatar mother. He started another blog a few days later, promising firmer moderation policies.

His first blog was discontinued on 11 July 2008 after a conflict with readers over the issue of foreign (American) adoptions of Russian children.

He was also a blogger, keeping a blog at LiveJournal, and posting both personal and public information or snippets of a book in progress. Recently his works have been adapted into film productions, for which he wrote the screenplays. His works often feature intense action-packed plots, interwoven with the moral dilemma of keeping one's humanity while being strong. Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko ( Russian: Серге́й Васи́льевич Лукья́ненко, Russian pronunciation: ) (born 11 April 1968) is a science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is one of the most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writers.

The Genome by Sergei Lukyanenko