Metro 2034

Metro 2034 (Russian: Метро 2034) is a novel written by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky and is a sequel to his novel Metro 2033. Although Metro 2034 is the official continuation of the Metro 2033 storyline, the 2013 video game Metro: Last Light - the sequel to the video game adaptation of the original novel - will have little to no similarities to the novel in its plot, but some events that are mentioned in the book may appear in the game also.

Plot

It is the year 2034. From the events that started and ended at VDNKh Station, less than a year had passed. The Dark Ones, once considered a deadly threat, are gone for good, killed by Artyom and his allies. On the other side of the Metro, the inhabitants of Sevastopolskaya Station are fighting for survival against new threats that constantly invade them. The fate of the station depends on weapon supplies, which are suddenly cut short, along with missing caravans and communication.

To solve the mystery and bring back the stability of supplies, a small group is sent: young Ahmed, old, unfulfilled chronicler Homer and Hunter - once lost among the Dark Ones, now found but with a rather uncertain identity... Their small group is extended with Sasha, the daughter of a banished station-master.

On the way to the Tulskaya Station (which has lost contact with Sevastopolskaya and is in their way to the Hanseatic League), they must pass by the Nakhimovsky Prospekt Station (a place with harmless, mutated creatures who eat the corpses of dead soldiers), Nagornaya Station (a place with a colossal creature that kills Ahmed), and a deserted Nagatinskaya Station.

When Homer and Hunter arrive at the Tulskaya, they find that the station has been sealed from the inside. So, Hunter decides to return to Sevastopolskaya and go around the other stations to enter Tulskaya by the north side. When they pass by the Nakhimovsky Prospekt, Homer notices a creature eating from body with a helmet in which is written "Sevastopolskaya." He decides to take a diary which is found next to the corpse.

Homer and Hunter return to Sevastopolskaya and inform the authorities there. They pass through the Kakhovskaya Line to the Zamoskvoretskaya Line and arrive at Kashirskaya Station, a deserted station with lots of radiation.

Meanwhile, a man who has been expelled from the station he governed dies due to the long exposure to the radiation at the surface. His daughter, Sasha is stricken with grief, but decides to leave her dad's corpse there and go to another station. When she is hitchhiking on the tunnels, she is hit by a man and is left unconscious. When she wakes up, she is before an old enemy of her father, a fat man who hits her. When she thinks she is going to be killed, she is rescued by Hunter who kills the man.

Homer who is writing a book, asks Sasha if she wants to come with them, because he needs a muse and a heroine for his book.

Together, they travel to Avtozavodskaya Station, where a soldier is going to kill them because of Sasha's exile state. Hunter kills him and makes an escape but is wounded.

In Paveletskaya Station, a wounded Hunter and Sasha fight, and Sasha, very angry goes to the surface wearing the suit and mask of the fat man. She sees the landscape but when some mutated creatures are attacking her, she is rescued by a figure who she thinks is Hunter. The man is only a Stalker, and a disappointed Sasha returns to Paveletskaya.

There, Sasha meets a Leonid, a skilled flautist and she finds that Homer is still there, because Hunter left the station alone. They travel to the Dobryninskaya Station, but Leonid tells Sasha that he knows of people who discovered an antidote. Homer refuses to believe him and tries to meet Hunter. Leonid then leads Sasha to the end of the Red Line, where he tells her that the entrance to the Emerald City is. He claims that he once was a citizen of the Emerald City, but was exiled for his crimes. However, this is not true, and he is actually a son of a high-ranking Red Line official. He apologizes to Sasha for his lies, and he then tells her that the disease can be stopped by radiation, as it causes the bacteria to stop multiplying.

Editions

Metro 2034 has already been translated to some European languages, such as: German, Dutch, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Italian, Greek, Czech, Polish, Serbian, Swedish, Finnish, Slovak, Bulgarian and Turkish. There was no news of an English version and discussions from officials regarding an English translation were rarely published to the public, until very recently. On December 9, 2012, the official Metro 2033 Facebook page revealed that an English translation would be coming out "soon". Fan translations in English already exist online, but are not very accurate. There is a Korean version of this book.

The novel was released in English on February 20, 2014.

Reception

The novel was well received by critics and audiences alike. The website Goodreads gave it a score of 3.4 out of five.^[1] The book was widely popular in Russia where it has sold some 300,000 copies in just six months, making it Russia's biggest local bestseller in 2009. The book has also been published online for free on the Metro 2034 Official Web Site, where over a million visitors have read the text.^[2]

Art Project

Glukhovsky has turned a book into an art-project, inviting famous Russian electronic performer and hip-hop star Dolphin to write an original soundtrack for the novel, while artist Anton Gretchko worked on the oil-painted images gallery. ^[3]

References

External links

• Official website