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Loading... Metro 2033 (original 2002; edition 2012)by Dmitri Gluhovski, Anna Suhonen (KÄÄnt.)
Work InformationMetro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky (2002)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book does world building and atmosphere so well, but I found the narrative and flow to be somewhat all over the place at points; although, this could be down to bad translation. I definitely enjoyed the book and would recommend it, the three star rating is purely because this book left me wanting a lot more. So much potential for greatness! Excellent. Young man's quest though Moscow's underground train network, meeting various communities (Jehovah Witnesses, cannibals, Fascists, peacekeepers, librarians, soldiers) after a nuclear war on the surface. I particularly enjoyed the discussion Artyom had about fate, ("the events of his life formed a harmonious plot...that so controlled reality that the immutable laws of probability obediently changed their shape...", page 255), consequently gave him the courage to continue his journey. The story was well ended with the hope for a peaceful solution; Artyom recognising he could become an intermediary between the mysterious Dark Ones who live on the surface, adapted to survive the radiation, and the humans underground. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found.
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I've been a fan of the games for a long time and had always meant to get around to reading the books, which can be a little unnerving in case they weren't as good. But this was phenomenal!
The worldbuilding, characters, interactions, and blending of myth and supernatural are all wonderful and I am extremely excited to check out the other books and the extended Metro universe.
It has the feel of a modern Odyssey mixed with the better parts of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, especially with many chapters being their own segment of the journey or experience. In this way it also feels less like a novel and more like many shirt stories and novellas seamlessly sewn together. This is not a criticism or downside from my point of view.
It leaves a lot of questions unanswered and has a lot you just have to go with, but that's genre fiction baybee and this is up there with some of the best.
I have a mighty need to replay the games and checkout the rest of the series.
Performance was brilliant.
Great stuff! ( )