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Now including a new translation, this is a chilling piece of Russian dystopian fiction and 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.
Readers are hooked on Metro 2033:
'The Russians have a skill in writing apocalyptic, nightmarish stories' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'It is the best post-apocalyptic sci-fi I have ever read' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Those Russians know how to write dystopian, post-apocalyptic, creepy horror . . . a fantastic, immersive read' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Detaljer
- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal464
- Udgivelsesdato25-09-2025
- ISBN139781399633703
- Forlag Gollancz
- FormatPaperback
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10 cm
Anmeldelser
Anonym 07/06/2022
en spændende bog
Simon H 03/11/2019
Metro 2033 er en utrolig spændende fortælling, der tager afsæt i hvordan menneskeheden hypotetisk set efter en tredje verdenskrig til stadighed gør forsøg på at overleve i Moskvas undergrund, året 2033. Hovedpersonen, Artyom er mega interessant og forfriskende at følge gennem metrosystemets tusmørke tunneler og stationer; han har en helt særegn indfaldsvinkel til hvordan han opfatter sin omverden og andre mennesker på, og formår gennem en videbegærlig og reflekterende tankegang, at blive klogere på de strukturer og kultur-forskelligheder der gemmer sig under Moskvas overflade.
Anonym 01/03/2018
5/5 UDEN TVIVL! Jeg har aldrig kunne fokusere i mere end 15 sider ad gangen og har aldrig læst for underholdningens skyld. Jeg fandt denne bog igennem spillet baseret på bogen. Eftersom at historien og plottet tiltalte mig i spillet så gav jeg bogen en chance. Jeg fik læst bogen på 5 dage. Jeg er i gang med 2034 nu og har allerede bestilt 2035 og afventer levering.
Anonym 02/11/2015
Bestemt en af, nok dem bedste, bøer som jeg har læst! En meget tankevækkende bog med store filosofiske tanker i. Kan KLART anbefales! 6/5 would read again!
Jamison H 19/06/2015
Bedste bog jeg har stående. Den er skrevet på en anderledes måde end hvad man er vant til, men uden unødige scener eller kedelig dialog. Den fangede mig med det samme og jeg har gjort det til en tradition at læse den hver sommer :) Dmitry har virkeliggjort noget ud af at få realismen frem i sin russiske metro og man bliver næsten klautrofobisk og kan mærke kulden, fugten og mørket. Både den og dens efterfølger er fantastiske og et must read for folk der kan lide den apokalyptiske genre.