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Metro 2003
Fantasy/Sci-fi-Thriller
Poplit Publishers
Moscow 2007
373 pages
Rights sold
UK (Orion)
Germany (Heyne)
Spain (Planeta)
Japan
Brasil
Portugal
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Poland
Czech Republic
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Korea
Serbia
Thailand
Turkey
Vietnam
Bulgaria
Italy
Slovenia
Taiwan |
Bestseller: Over 1 000 000 readers of the internet edition
300.000 copies sold in Russia
Complete English script is available.
Synopsys
The Cold War is back – and so is the universal fear of nuclear war! 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. 20 years have passed since it happened. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, new creatures are better adapted than humans to the new world. Man's time is over. But he doesn't want to believe it. 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. Nearly all of them were in the Metro that day, and that's what saved them. They are defended from radiation and mutant creatures by hermetic barriers; dilapidated filters clean the water and air. Craftsmen have put together dynamos to create electricity, and underground farms cultivate mushrooms and pigs – though the poorest do not turn up their noses at eating rats. The central administration is long gone, and 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: the northern outpost of humanity and civilisation. A strong group of a few hundred people lives here, united by friendship, treating the station as their cherished home. 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 in his hands the future of his native station, the whole Metro – and maybe the whole of humanity.
Reviews
"By superimposing a horror story onto the map of Moscow's metro, Glukhovsky created a rather gripping combination. "Metro 2033" would make a perfect basis for a sci-fi movie." The Moscow Times
"Dmitry Glukhovsky used a trademark pattern to create a bestseller. Mosters, mutants, marauders stalking a land contaminated by radiation, while survivors of a nuclear war hide in the tunnels of Moscow Subway... Incredible and fantastic as it seems, once you start reading it, it is simply impossible to stop..." Time Out
”Geil! Einfach nur geil! Unbedingt lesen! Ein echt geiles Buch!!!“ Zauberspiegel Online
"Eine unglaublich fantasievolle, spannende Geschichte, ausgezeichnet durchdacht und wirklich phantastisch erzählt. Ich war in dieser Welt sofort zuhause und fühlte mich vom Autor nie im Stich gelassen. Ein großartiger SF/Fantasy-Roman!" Buechereule
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