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.

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Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become 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 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. The Russians have a skill in writing apocalyptic, nightmarish stories. You only have to read the Strugatsky Brothers' 'Roadside Picnic' (or watch the film version, 'Stalker'), Gansovsky's 'A Day of Wrath' or watch Lopushansky's amazing 'Letters From A Dead Man' to realise that they understand what it is to live on the edge of the abyss. Claustrophobic, dark cul-de-sacs of danger and terror, 'Metro 2033' is a world of uncertainties and fear, hung on the fringes between survival and death.

Criminal The Russians have a skill in writing apocalyptic, nightmarish stories. You only have to read the Strugatsky Brothers' 'Roadside Picnic' (or watch the film version, 'Stalker'), Gansovsky's 'A Day of Wrath' or watch Lopushansky's amazing 'Letters From A Dead Man' to realise that they understand what it is to live on the edge of the abyss. Claustrophobic, dark cul-de-sacs of danger and terror, 'Metro 2033' is a world of uncertainties and fear, hung on the fringes between survival and death.

Criminals and refugees, traders and mystics. Bullets used as currency.

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Fear, and always uncertainty. Artyom, our hero, is asked to deliver an important message that could affect the survival of humankind in the subways.

On his way to the centre he is aided, and hindered, by a motley crew of individuals who reflect the chaos that reigns below. The voyage is full of menace (though moments of almost calm menace and surreality are not uncommon). There is one brief sortie to the surface that becomes an adrenalyn-packed nightmare. I never realised that you can read a book through your fingers as you wait for the horrors to leap out from the ruins and the dark.

This is, of course, an Odyssey and our brave Ulysses has to strive through his labours as he comes face-to-face with the demons that litter his nightmare world distorted and turned inside out by humanity. His is a noble task and he is aided by heroic figures, heroes that could have stepped out of the ancient myths. Yet questions and doubts are raised constantly. What sort of humanity is it that Artyom wants to save? And what nightmares come flowing down the dark tunnels of the Metro. I really wanted to like this book. Everything about it promised so much!