Metro 2033 Paperback

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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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & still remains secure But now a new & 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 & to get help He holds the future of his native station in his hands the whole Metro
- & maybe the whole of humanity