Picture the scene: humanity has once again illustrated its immeasurable stupidity by wiping out all life on Earth with a nuclear Armageddon. Those bloody bombs sure know how to ruin a perfectly viable ecosystem! Some twenty years later and it's now 2033 and we're living in the Moscow Metro System, perhaps the only place on Earth where human life still exists. Being reasonably safe from the perils ... read more
Description: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 remaiThe 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.... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Heyne Verlag Release date : 18 March 2010 ISBN-10 : 3453532988 |
ISBN-13: 9783453532984
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"I began reading it and just didn't make any progress. I WANT to finish it but it's just so uninteresting. All the actions seem so insignifant and there's no progress in the story. Maybe it gets much better after the first quarter but I just can't get myself to continue.
I thought it would be a cool book because it kinda sounded like a video game... (who knew there would actually be a video game released some time later!)"
"Vähintäänkin suositeltava ydinsodan jälkeinen maailmankuvaus. Kirjan pimeät metrotunnelit on kuvattu erittäin yksityiskohtaisesti, minkä seurauksena tunnelma on ajoittain ahdistava ja jopa kauhua herättävä. Kirjan peliversiokin on hieno, vaikkakin tämä keskittyy enemmän kauhun nostattamiseen ja toimintaa on vähemmän kuin konsoliversiossa. Synkkyydestään huolimatta kirja jaksaa viihdyttää koko pituutensa ajan ja kerrontatyyli sekä varsinkin lopetus onnistuvat herättämään a"
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“Picture the scene: humanity has once again illustrated its immeasurable stupidity by wiping out all life on Earth with a nuclear Armageddon. Those bloody bombs sure know how to ruin a perfectly viable ecosystem! Some twenty years later and it's now 2033 and we're living in the Moscow Metro System, perhaps the only place on Earth where human life still exists. Being reasonably safe from the perils of fatal radiation doses and the intense sunlight that would surely blind any tunnel-dwelling eyeball, our pitiful species continues to exist in the dark, deep, dank tunnels, living on a diet of pork and mushrooms.
In our absence, in the skeletal remains of our once glorious metropolises, radiation borne creatures of unfathomable shape, and indistinguishable origin have begun to thrive, ” read more
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