It’s a great premise – essentially, Metro 2033 is a modern-day Gulliver’s Travels in which Glukhovsky comments on the socio-political landscape of Russia. However, flesh-eating mutants known as Dark Ones also dwell in the tunnels making contact and travel dangerous.Īrtyom, an inhabitant of the VDNKh station must penetrate the heart of the metro to curtail the spread of the mutants and by doing so save not only his own terminal but perhaps what remains of humanity. Here, they develop independent ‘states’, each based in a particular station. Survivors have been driven underground to the city’s subway system to escape an irradiated landscape. The novel is set in Moscow some years after a nuclear war. A book deal was not long in coming and with a videogame adaptation soon after, Metro 2033’s extraordinary success seems fated to continue. Glukhovsky began posting chapters of his work online, soon gathering thousands of followers eager for his next instalment. Dmitry Glukhovsky’s Metro 2033 was something of a phenomenon in his native Russia.
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