
METRO 2033 is a science fiction book written by Dmitry Glukhovsky, which plots the story of a young boy Artyom who goes a long way to save his world from mortal danger. The year is 2033 and the world has been reduced to rubble. The human race is getting extinct and the half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. But, there are survivors who still exist and can remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilization have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend.
It’s been more than 20 years that have passed, since the last plane took off from the earth. 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 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. 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.