Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The "Night Watch", first book in the "Night Watch" trilogy, follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to the Light. As a Night Watch agent he must patrol the streets and metro of the city, protecting ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. When he comes across Svetlana, a young woman under a powerful curse, and saves an unfledged Other, Egor, from vampires, he becomes involved in events that threaten the uneasy truce, and the whole city...

謝爾蓋·盧基揚年科，歐洲科幻大會2003年度最佳作傢，俄羅斯科幻大會2006年度最佳作傢。一九六八年齣生於前蘇聯哈薩斯坦共和國，畢業於國立阿拉木圖醫學院，畢業後擔任內科醫生和精神病醫生，行醫之餘，他對科幻奇幻小說興趣頗濃，曾以擔任《世界》科幻雜誌副總編輯。

一九八八年發錶首部作品——科幻短篇小說《毀滅》。其後的作品《四十島騎士》、《原子能之夢》、《地王星來的勛爵》，以及《幻影迷宮》等都廣受好評，被譽為俄羅斯科幻文學之父。

而真正讓謝爾蓋·盧基揚年科成為傢喻戶曉的人物的是他的“守夜人”係列。這個係列完美地體現瞭他的寫作功力，把他推到一個前所未有的高度，使他得以站在歐洲最優秀的科幻奇幻作傢之列。