Background
Alexander Tyurin was born on the 20th of January, 1962 in Odessa.In 1967 he moved to Leningrad. Since 1996 he has lived in Germany.
Alexander Tyurin was born on the 20th of January, 1962 in Odessa.In 1967 he moved to Leningrad. Since 1996 he has lived in Germany.
In 1983 he graduated from the Highest Leningrad Naval School. Then he worked in the Maritime Fleet system. Since 1985 he has participated in the workshop of young fantasy writers under the leadership of Boris Strugatsky.
Tyurin made his debut in fantasy with the story “A cage for the wild” (1988, co-authored with Alexander Shchegolev). His story “A net” (co-authored with Shchegolev) and the novel “The Stone Age” written in 1989-1990 and published in 1992, became the first works in the history of Russian cyberpunk.
In the Tyurin`s texts of the1980-ies and the early 1990-ies readers see difficult conceptions of the cooperation of humanity and a computer network which has humanlike machinery interfaces, organic and non-organic cyber implants. In the works there is an interference of computer systems in the governance and a digital life.
In the second half of the 1990-ies more and more nanopunk elements penetrate into Tyurin`s works. The novel “Are computers afraid of penal fire?”(1998), the narratives “The Cyber Age” and “The fortune of Koshchei in the Cyber Age” (2003), “The Patriotic War of 2012” (2004), the novel “The person of the Technical Age”(2006), the narrative “General Zima” are devoted to social, psychological and other aspects of the application of nanotechnologies. In the last works self-developing nanotechnologies create something like a technosphere which replaces and supplants the nature.
Tyurin also wrote several popular science futurology and history works, including “The truth about Nikolas I. The shandered emperor” (2010) and “The Russians are a successful nation. How the Russian land was increasing” (2012).In his historical works, Tyurin considers the development of Russia as a cooperation of a great social system and heavy environment. For this he uses an environmental determinism concept and a historical mechanic approach.