Andrei Belyanin

Andrei Olegovich Belyanin (born 24 January 1967, in Astrakhan) is a Russian science fiction and fantasy writer, who wrote at least 15 novels with many of them selling over 2 million copies.

[citation needed] He is especially known for humour and parody in his fiction.

Belyanin's novels are mostly ironical chrono-operas, where the pun is based on anachronisms.

He had a son, Ivan, who was kidnapped in 2004 for sake of ransom.

The criminals, brothers Kirill and Ivan Kostylev, both were sentenced to prison.