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| Title | : | Metro 2033 (МЕТРО #1) |
| Author | : | Dmitry Glukhovsky |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First U.S. English Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 458 pages |
| Published | : | January 17th 2013 by Future Corp. (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Horror. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Dystopia |
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Paperback | Pages: 458 pages Rating: 3.99 | 37379 Users | 2428 Reviews
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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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| Original Title: | Метро 2033 |
| ISBN: | 1481845705 (ISBN13: 9781481845700) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | МЕТРО #1 |
| Setting: | Moscow,2033(Russian Federation) Moscow,2034(Russian Federation) |
| Literary Awards: | Eurocon for Encouragement (2007) |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 37379 Users | 2428 ReviewsWrite Up About Books Metro 2033 (МЕТРО #1)
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 ofI was so excited to get into this book! I love exploring a unique apocalyptic world and this one sounded like a winner. Not knowing much about the Moscow Metro, I spent a happy half hour scrolling through google images of its glamourous stations. That, unfortunately, was the most enjoyment I got out of the whole experience.My copy of Metro 2033 was an English translation of the Russian novel, and I really do wish I could have read the original. There were so many moments where either there wasnt
The Russians have a skill in writing apocalyptic, nightmarish stories. You only have to read the Strugatsky Brothers' "Roadside Picnic" (or watch the film version, "Stalker"), Gansovsky's "A Day of Wrath" or watch Lopushansky's amazing "Letters From A Dead Man" to realise that they understand what it is to live on the edge of the abyss.Claustrophobic, dark cul-de-sacs of danger and terror, "Metro 2033" is a world of uncertainties and fear, hung on the fringes between survival and death.
I began reading this book several months ago, since I'm eager to play the video game that was recently adapted from it. I expected to get a standard post-apocalyptic adventure novel, and this is what I got -- for 80% of the book. The other 20% is filled with bleak philosophizing and clouds of uncertainty that creep around the main character, like the weird sounds and unsettling environs of the dessicated metro itself.Then, in the last ten pages, this wave of conceptualization leaps out of the
Just to comment of the bad translation vs bad writing issue; Im inclined to think its probably the latter (for those that were not particularly fond
The Russians have a skill in writing apocalyptic, nightmarish stories. You only have to read the Strugatsky Brothers' "Roadside Picnic" (or watch the film version, "Stalker"), Gansovsky's "A Day of Wrath" or watch Lopushansky's amazing "Letters From A Dead Man" to realise that they understand what it is to live on the edge of the abyss.Claustrophobic, dark cul-de-sacs of danger and terror, "Metro 2033" is a world of uncertainties and fear, hung on the fringes between survival and death.
I love a good dystopia, and Metro 2033 delivers a particularly interesting example of the type. Glukhovsky's vision of the remnants of human society huddling in the damp and eerie darkness of the Moscow metro while surviving on rats and carefully cultivated mushrooms is a fascinating scenario (Although I kept wondering how we would fare here in Melbourne where our subway consists of only four stations- we don't have much space for a post-apocalyptic microcosm of society down there!).After the
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