Robber Evil Moon. Lukina L., Lukin E.

The poet in Russia is more than the poet. This flying phrase of the authorship of Yevgeny Yevtushenko is repeated by anyone who is not lazy when the conversation about poetry comes in. For some reason they don’t talk about science fiction writers. This is unfair. A science fiction at Russia is more than a science fiction writer. It even happens that he is more than the fantasy itself. Not everyone, of course. The circle of such writers is small. Ivan Efremov, Brothers Strugatsky, Vladislav Krapivin, Cyrus Bulychev, Boris Stern, Mikhail Uspensky... Evgeny Lukin is rightfully referring to this rare minority.

Fantasy for him - a device in the like Leskovsky Melkivka: you look at his eye and you look at his eye and you look You will see that near the flea on the tray the key is also lying. Read the writer Lukin - joy and pleasure. The joy of the quality of his prose, pleasure - from the joke atmosphere in which his heroes live. You read it and see it, when suddenly Gogol will wink from the page slyly, then it will twist a finger at the temple of the Saltykov-Shchedrin, then the tail of the Cat of the Cat of the Hippo will wag somewhere between the heads of the Cat. The first stories and novels of Lukin were written along with Lukina’s love, the wife of the writer, alas, at forty -six years old. If you start counting all the prizes and rewards that Lukin received from the beginning of his writing activity, you will get somewhere at the fifth or sixth ten. He has them for a hundred. “Aelita”, “Wanderer”, “Bronze Snail”, “Abs-Premium”, Interpreshkon, Raskon, named after Ivan Efremov, Belyaevsky Prize, “Golden Ostap” and many diverse others. Even the Literary Gazeta once he was declared the winner of the Golden Calf Award for his ironic poems. And in 2015, Lukin awarded the honorary title of Grandmaster of European Fantasy.