Metro 2033
The cult international bestseller and inspiration behind the METRO video game franchise
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4.4 • 79 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A chilling piece of Russian dystopian fiction by Dmitry Glukhovsky and the basis of the bestselling computer games Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light, Metro: Exodus, and the highly-anticipated Metro 2039
A WORLD IN DARKNESS. A SINGLE HOPE.
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. A few thousand live on, not knowing if they are the only survivors on the planet. They live in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. 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 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 alert everyone to the awful danger. He holds the future of his native station in his hands, the future of the Metro - and maybe the whole of humanity.
Readers are hooked on Metro 2033 . . .
'Real survival, real struggle, and a very elaborated setting take Metro 2033 to new levels of "things went wrong here"' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'It is the best post-apocalyptic sci-fi I have ever read' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Dystopian, post-apocalyptic, creepy horror . . . a fantastic, immersive read' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'A gripping story that unfolds in the claustrophobic, dangerous tunnels of a human realm descending into chaos' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Customer Reviews
So well written and thoughtful.
I love that this was a journey, physical and spiritual. It allowed the author to say some very meaningful and complex things. To show life as people live it.
‘Ant hill’
He should have opened the door
Decent read but overly long.
Oddly there are no female characters in this book other than “someone’s mother”, or “someone’s sister”. The main character goes on an Odyssey-like adventure and only speaks to men of various ages. Apart from that the book starts well and ends well, but unfortunately has a long meandering middle.