I do not stop to write

Not so long ago you have received the whole set of awards. Here and Sigma-F, and the Beljaevsky award, and at once two Interpresskona, - and all within one week … to You is pleasant to receive the award?

-- And it is not pleasant to whom? Show to me of this mutant! The reader's answer exists in different forms, and the award - not the worst variant. Certainly, for professional tekstovika it is the most important circulations, but all the same our job is not paid by one money. We work for live people, and it is sometimes very important to feel reciprocal heat of their hearts. And awards is just such here warm pebbles.

Whether is not present in this bonus race of an element of competition to Sergey Lukyanenko?

-- I compete only with myself. And in this plan to me not the competitor any live or dead author. I very much like someone, very much I respect, but it it not the occasion with them to butt.

You consider what award present? That of which all life dreamt?

-- The Nobel Prize on the mathematician. To explain it is necessary? As a last resort, on the physicist - but for a literary work. That the people were going to and have told: "Here, the guy such ofigennye writes books, - give it the award on the physicist we will give!" Basically, it agree a badge "Honourable security officer". Or mountain skiing from Putin's hands.

But after all, as far as I know, you have received the Beljaevsky award just not for circulations or is dashing twirled plot? And not for beautiful eyes, ljubovno sung by fans?

-- In the story "Harmful trade" a plot just the good. There will be no this story, I would not please in a collection group of authors "Vessels of secrets", and would not be any Beljaevki. Basically, it is handed over for scientifically-educational activity and cultural urological researches so here it and is - rehearsal of mine Nobelevki on the mathematician. Or on the physicist. And it too is similar to a badge "Honourable security officer" - it can be carried, tricks to a jacket.

Well, the honourable winner of all and everything and with what you are going to to achieve higher awards?

-- Anything to me in the near future will not give. Though till the end of a year I am intended to hand over in "eksmo" two volumes. It will be for a long time the sickening novel promised to the worker about a hard life of Russian national vampires - now it is called "Night looking". And the collection of any small things in original author's edition. For foul language do not wait, but everyones vkusnosti there will be. Though I think - whether to thrust there a couple of extreme texts?

Judging by your answer, hearings what you leave a fantasy, in due time called a considerable alarm, are groundless?

-- Well, year two I am exact here. Actually, frameworks of the extremely topical literature in general and a fantasy in particular to me become rather small. It, of course, does not mean, that I stop to write. The literature with me still namuchaetsja.

Well, with a question who you for the literature, I think, all is clear. And what the literature for you means?

-- Here it is necessary to carry professional and personal. In professional sense is a constant call on a duel in which the literature breaks game rules. Happens, practising with the art form, you feel: you are already so good, that yourself are afraid. And then you take from a shelf the book of author N with million circulations, you look, how it is written, and cannot understand, who from you a trestle. Judging by circulations - you.

And in the personal plan the literature - the jealous and artful woman who is able to wait and beat in a weak place.

And in what weak place it has struck you, if from you two years there was no high-grade book?

-- The tightened creative crisis has caused crisis family. I had to choose, whether I pass in the category of second-grade commercial authors - and all the same on this way my family falls to hell, - or I try to achieve bolshego. With the same household consequences. I do not wish to be the messenger bringing a bad message, but this wave soon many will cover - at us enough talented children who should make sooner or later a serious choice.

So, the good guy in you has squabbled with the writer … And who has won?

-- I was always ready to pay for the right to be myself. And let I on this way will die - though will not wait! - but at me in the project very interesting texts which should be issued. Sooner or later. I did not allow a trade to dictate me a line of conduct in a life, and because of it, I absolutely precisely know, there was no minimum of two enough interesting books. Will suffice, has bothered. Anything so does not undermine soul, as the text which you have buried the unwritten. I very much do not wish to howl on the deathbed from contempt for. Means, if the text is torn outside - it I will write. And to spit on consequences. Here in such position I feel myself as the person on the place. For the first time for long years.