Metro 2033

10.2022.

Dmitry Glukhovsky created an entire universe by combining the map of the Moscow Metro with the power of imagination. In reality, Metro 2033 makes anything possible: strange anomalies, distorted nature, mutants and beasts that look like living nightmares—or the result of classified experiments.

On the station-cities, strict rules are in force; ammunition has become currency, and familiar food has been replaced by mushrooms and rare vegetables with the taste of gray, ashy sludge. Even a normal breath requires caution: anti-radiation filters no longer provide full protection.

The most desperate head to the surface—for supplies, things, and small remnants from the past. But will they be able to return back underground, to continue their lives, clinging to a fragile hope for the future?

2033. The planet lies in ruins; humankind has nearly disappeared. Moscow is now a dead, radiation-poisoned city where monsters run wild. The survivors hide in the Moscow Metro—the world’s largest anti-nuclear shelter. The stations have become independent states, while darkness and fear rule in the tunnels. Artyom, a resident of VDNKh, must traverse the entire metro in order to defend his station—and possibly give a chance at salvation to all of humanity. Dmitry Glukhovsky’s iconic online novel has already been read by one hundred thousand users, and many had been waiting for the book to be released.

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