Dmitry Glukhovsky created an entire universe based on the Moscow metro map and his own imagination. In the world of 'Metro 2033,' any anomaly can be encountered; the earth is now populated by mutants and animals whose appearance resembles the worst nightmares or someone's secret experiments. Strict laws reign in the station cities, the currency is bullets, the food is mushrooms and rare vegetables that taste like ashy liquid. Be careful when you inhale; anti-radiation filters can no longer protect one hundred percent. Those who are brave enough go up to collect goods and trinkets. But will they return to the metro to continue living under a layer of ghostly hopes for the future?

Abstract

2033. The whole world lies in ruins. Humanity is almost completely destroyed. Moscow has turned into a ghost town, poisoned by radiation and inhabited by monsters. The few surviving people are hiding in the Moscow metro - the largest nuclear bomb shelter on earth. Its stations have turned into city-states, and the tunnels are filled with darkness and horror. Artyom, a resident of VDNKh, must go through the entire metro to save his station, and maybe all of humanity, from terrible danger. Dmitry Glukhovsky's cult online novel is already known to one hundred thousand Internet users. Everyone was waiting for this book to come out.