Metro 2033 novels that inspired bestselling games

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 ExodusThe year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The halfdestroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burnedout 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 lifeforms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Mans 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 airraid shelter ever built. It is humanitys last refuge. Stations have become ministatelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, waterfilters 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... | Dmitry Glukhovsky Metro 2033 : The novels that inspired the bestselling games