Metro 2034: Volume 2: The novels that inspired the bestselling games - Softcover

Dmitry Glukhovsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473204305 ISBN 13: 9781473204300

Publisher: Gollancz, 2014

Synopsis

The basis of two bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, the Metro books have put Dmitry Glukhovsky in the vanguard of Russian speculative fiction alongside the creator of Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko.

A year after the events of METRO 2033 the last few survivors of the apocalypse, surrounded by mutants and monsters, face a terrifying new danger as they hang on for survival in the tunnels of the Moscow Metro.

Featuring blistering action, vivid and tough characters, claustrophobic tension and dark satire the Metro books have become bestsellers across Europe.

About this title

Review:

The Metro universe is still one of the best realised apocalyptic settings around (NERD LIKE YOU)

From the Author:

Dmitry Glukhovsky is a Russian writer and journalist. His first novel, METRO 2033, a post-nuclear dystopia set in the Moscow subway, the world's biggest bomb shelter, was written as an online interactive experiment and published on his own website as a free project in 2002, then completed in 2004. Several years later, the novel came out as a printed book and became a success. It has already sold close to 600.000 copies in Russia alone and is translated into 35 languages. It saw a success across Europe, particularly in Germany, Sweden and Poland. Millions have read the free text of the novel on its official webiste. The full text is still available in open access. The film rights were purchased by MGM studios in Hollywood. Glukhovsky's following books, Metro 2034, Sumerki and The Russian Anti-Popular Tales have also been published online and become an international success. Dmitry Glukhovsky is also known as one of the global pioneers of the transmedia storytelling. His 'Metro' saga is being told across his own novels 'Metro 2033' and 'Metro 2034', the two video games inspired by the books and continuing their storyline - 'Metro 2033' and 'Metro: Last Light', as well as novels written by other authors within and for 'The Universe of Metro 2033' international book franchise (40 books published by October 2013). Dmitry's most recent novel, a dystopia named 'Future', Dmitry Glukhovsky first published in a social network, Russia's leading 'VK.com'. Chapters of the novel were attached as free-download PDF documents, and were accompanied by a free-to-listen original soundtrack and illustrations; within few months, the page of 'Future' gathered over 300 000 subscribers. As a roving reporter for Russia Today and EuroNews, he traveled from Morocco and Guatemala to Iceland and Japan. He was deep in Chernobyl area to film the destroyed nuclear reactor, watched Russian rockets' launch at Baykonur, reported Israel's standoff with Hezbollah under the missiles in Kiryat-Shmona and made the world's first live report from the North Pole. Apart of his native Russian, Glukhovsky fluently speaks English, French, German, Hebrew and Spanish.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1473204305
• ISBN 13: 9781473204300
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320