Metro 2033 : The novels that inspired the bestselling games
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The basis of three bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, and Metro: Exodus.
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend.
More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over.
A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price.
VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared. Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro, to the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity.
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The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend.
More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over.
A few score thousand survivors live on, not knowing whether they are the only ones left on earth. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams, plans, hopes. Feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. Survival at any price.
VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared. Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro, to the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the whole Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity.
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Product details
- Paperback | 464 pages
- 133 x 200 x 29mm | 326g
- 30 May 2018
- Orion Publishing Co
- Gollancz
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 0575086254
- 9780575086258
- 1,356
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Review Text
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to uninhabitable rubble and only a few score thousand survivors live on in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is a world without a tomorrow where feelings have given way to instinct - the most important of which is survival. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared and it is up to one young man to alert everyone. He holds the future of his the whole Metro in his hands and maybe the whole of humanity as well.
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About Dmitry Glukhovsky
Dmitry Glukhovsky is a Journalism and Foreign Relations graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He won THE ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD OF THE EUROPEAN SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY in 2007. In addition to his native Russian, he speaks English, French, German, Hebrew and Spanish.
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Our customer reviews
I wanted to like this book and it showed early promise by building a dark and sombre atmosphere reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. However, it failed to properly develop any of the characters, all of whom seemed to be jumping at their own shadows. In the end I stopped caring about what might happen next and accordingly stopped reading it altogether.show more
by Vincent Lorberg
I really wanted to like this book. Everything about it promised so much! The setting is the Moscow metro system in the year 2033. Above ground, it appears that humanity has been wiped out by nuclear war. The survivors live entirely in the underground tunnel system; stations have evolved into microcosms of the old social and political systems of Russia.
The inhabitants are now into the second generation, and Glukhovsky touches on some of the adaptive changes humans have undergone as a result of living in a lightless world, believing themselves the last representatives of humanity. Strange mutations have resulted from the nuclear devastation, and frightening creatures are taking over the world above; some of them threaten life in the tunnel systems.
The premise is simply fascinating, and begs for more attention by the author. But one of the main flaws of the book, as I see it, is that Glukhovsky simply does not pay enough attention to building a cohesive, believable world, and the promise in the premise is not fulfilled.
Glukhovsky's primary concern is with relating the adventures of his hero Artyom, a young man drawn ostensibly by chance into a strange quest to save the metro system. The structure of the quest is aimless and ultimately lacks satisfactory closure. I struggled to remain engaged with Artyom and indeed the fate of the metro system. About a quarter of the way through I simply stopped caring about what would happen to any of them.
The novel rushes to a close in the last ten pages (after a build-up of nearly 450 pages) and these last few pages throw the whole book into a new light - suddenly, I saw how the novel could have been a rich critique of modern humanity, an exploration of the madness and futility of war, and the destructiveness of anthropocentrism.
A factor that served only to exacerbate any issues I had with plot and character development is what is almost certainly a poor translation (I am giving Glukhovsky himself the benefit of the doubt, as I cannot read Russian and verify the quality of the original), and some awful copy-editing.
The [only] good news is that this novel was adapted into a PC game - and I think the story material is eminently suited to it! I actually bought the game, and I am looking forward to exploring it.show more
by Lilla Smee
I don't really read many books but this one was very entertaining.
Definitely buying a sequel.show more
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