Listen to an excerpt from METRO 2034 by Dmitry Glukhovsky.Download METRO 2034 here: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Metro-2034-Audiobook/B00I4X9S3U/source_code=SCL30DFT1Bk0001AdvBkr051013&bp_ua=yesThe 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.
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Rupert Degas skillfully narrates all three books in the Metro trilogy. To date, Degas has won more than 15 AudioFile Earphones Awards for his exceptional audiobook performances. Degas's talents as a narrator are on full display in this trilogy as he renders the tension and suspense in each installment. Listeners have marveled at his narration, commending him for his work with accents and creating distinct voices that feel true to each of the characters.
After you finish the first audiobook in the trilogy, Metro 2033, you won't be able to stop there. The second installment, Metro 2034, picks up a year after the events of the first book, introducing new characters and situations, creating an even richer post-apocalyptic world in the process. Metro 2035 is the rewarding final chapter of the series, the conclusion to Artyom and the other characters' stories. It's one you won't soon forget.
Although Polis do not agree to intervene, a faction known as the Brahmins (who consist of scientists and academics who collect books from the library above), contact Artyom. They offer a solution to the threat of the Dark Ones in exchange for Artyom's help in recovering a sacred book, as they believe him to be psychically sensitive. Artyom travels to the surface with Melnik and young Brahmin called Daniel. They enter the library and are attacked by the 'librarians', mutated creatures that reside there. Daniel is mortally wounded, but before dying, gives Artyom his reward anyway. It is an envelope containing directions to a functioning missile silo. Artyom and Melnik flee without the book and re-enter the metro, arriving at station Kievskaya. Melnik leaves Artyom at the station while he goes to collect reinforcements but whilst he is away, Artyom becomes involved in the search for a missing child, Oleg. Artyom and Oleg's father are abducted by a tribe of cannibals who worship 'The Great Worm' while following the trail left by the child. They are rescued by Melnik and a squad of fighters and they escape into Metro-2, a secret set of tunnels that lead to the missile site.
By 2010, over 500,000 copies of Metro 2033 had been sold in Russia alone.[1] Over 2 million had read the book on its official site before it even was published in print.[2] Foreign book rights have been sold to dozens of countries. In 2007, Glukhovsky was awarded the Encouragement Award of the European Science Fiction Society at the Eurocon for Metro 2033.[3]
Glukhovsky's follow-up novel Metro 2034 was published in 2009, followed by Metro 2035 in 2015. In addition, many other authors have published scores of volumes in the Universe of Metro 2033; anthologies of short stories have been also published and some authors have created their personal underground universes based in other metropolitan areas.[10]
Metro 2033NormalWesternGeneral InformationAuthor:Dmitry GlukhovskyCountry:RussiaLanguage:Russian; has been translated to 35+ other languages.Genre:Fiction, Post-apocalypticPublisher:Eksmo, OrionbooksTänapäev (Estonia)Publication Date:2005 (Russia)2010 (Poland)2010 (USA)2011 (Hungary)2011 (Greece)2012 (Spain)2014 (Estonia)2015 (Georgia)2016 (Romania)Media Type:Print (Hardcover and Paperback), E-book and audioPages:348 (Russian)592 (Polish)458 (English)440 (Hungarian)541 (Spanish)510 (Estonian)632 (Georgian)542 (Greek)624 (Romanian) 733 (German) ISBN:978-5170596782 (Russian) 9789949274833 (Estonian, hardcover) 9789949275700 (Estonian, E-book)Continued By:Metro 2034
In 2009, Metro 2034 was published. Although set in the same world, it isn't a direct sequel to Metro 2033 and does not feature the same protagonist. Glukhovsky later wrote another book - Metro 2035 - which is set 2 years after the first novel and continues the story of Artyom.
It is then, that the first of the four missiles strikes the very heart of the gardens. Artyom watches helplessly as the dark ones are all annihilated by the blast and the sound of their voices that brought Artyom so much hope and joy were forever extinguished along with them. Ulman loudly celebrates and mocks the dark ones as the next missiles arrive. Metro 2033 ends with Artyom, stricken mad with grief, removing his gas mask and silently leaving down the stairs of the tower for home, for the metro.
By 2009, over 400,000 copies of Metro 2033 had been sold in Russia alone. Online readers outnumber paperback readers by five times in terms of numbers. Foreign book rights have been sold to more than 20 countries.
Despite astounding success, Metro 2033 was not without its criticisms. For starters the book was criticized as having a sort of 'aimless' and 'empty' quality as an indirect result of a lack of large-scale world building. Some feel that a few aspects are described in far too much detail. Other complaints about the book are about Artyom's tendency to stumble his way into danger, see or experience how dangerous it was, and then often get saved by a coincidence - which puts a lot of pressure on the finale. By the end, some feel that the rules of the fiction's universe haven't been established well enough to get into the story or expanded universe. 2ff7e9595c
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