Metro 2033

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Dimitry Glukhovsky
Dmitry A. Glukhovsky (born June 12, 1979) is a Russian author and journalist known for Sci-Fi, MagicRealism, and his exploration of social and political structures. He began writing his first novel, Metro 2033, at the age of 18, and then published it on his website in 2002, available for all to read for free. The novel has become an interactive experiment, drawing in over 3 million readers worldwide. It was published in print form in 2005 in Russia, and 2010 in the U.S. It has since been made into a video game for the Xbox and PC. In 2007, It's Getting Darker was published, followed by Metro 2034 in 2009, Russias best-seller that year, also available free on-line, both as text and as a collaborative art-project with Russian electronic performer Dolphin and visual-artist Anton Gretchko. This was followed in 2010 by a series of satirical stories about Russia today - Stories about Motherland. As a journalist, Dimitry Glukhovsky has worked for EuroNews TV in France and Deutsche Welle.. He writes columns for Harpers Bazaar, lOfficiel(french popular press) and Playboy(everyone knows it). Currently living in Moscow, Glukhovsky has lived in Israel, Germany and France. He speaks English, French, Armenian and Hebrew fluently as well as his native Russian.

When? Where?
The plot of the story is happening not so for in the future. As the name of a book says, the main story line is situated in the year 2033. The book describes Moscow metro, however, ruined city is mentioned in the novel too.

General idea
In the year 2010 a global nuclear war had destroyed all the life on the earths surface. Fortunately, around 40 000 people found their new home in the Moscow metro. However, mutants and other new forms of life have emerged. Citiziens of the metro have to resist numerous attacks of those mutants and defend their only home. What is more, various groups of people such as Nazis and Red line started their own civillian war. The book tells the story about the young boy called Artyom, whose home station is under the attack of the Dark Ones. He set of his journey through the metro to find an inevitable help. He gets into the many troubles, but he has positive karma and there is always somebody who helps him to move on. In the end of the

story he actually denied the nest of the Dark Ones but as the last pages of the book say Dark Ones werent their enemies, they only wanted to make alliance, but humans probably destroyed their last hope.

Character list

Artyom:

Artyom, born a few years before the bombing in 2009, was raised underground in Timiryazevskaya station until it was overrun by a massive horde of rats. Since then, he lives with his adoptive father Alex in VDNKh (Exhibition). When he was younger, Artyom and some of his teen friends opened the hermetic door of a station north of VDNKh named Botanicheskiy sad. Through this door the Dark ones got inside a few years later, and because of the events taking place at this time, he would be branded as their "chosen one" to help the two species reunite. Many years later when Hunter is investigating the dark ones and their potential threat to VDNKh Station and the rest of the metro system, he gives Artyom the responsibility of traveling to the center of the Metro to warn the rest of the metro of the danger. Alex is responsible for saving Artyom during the nuclear war, as stated in the book; "I was just a boy when they saved me". His mother hands him over to Sukhoi while their homestation is being attacked by a horde of rats. Sukhoi and some others manage to escape via railcar, but everyone still in the station was killed. Despite this, Artyom does not refer to Alex/Sukhoi as father but as uncle. Hunter is a ranger and old friend of Alex, possibly due to a pre-war friendship. As a ranger he is a high-ranking one, being trusted enough to traverse the surface alone with heavy gear, and is a key part of the story, entrusting Artyom with a mission to save the Metro. Khan Aitmatov is a wandering soldier, philosopher, and an occasional member of the Rangers. Rangers is a special unit of the very best soldiers in the metro. Bourbon is a trader, drifter, survivor, criminal, and adventurer, all rolled into one man. He is a seasoned professional who has seen everything the metro and surface has to offer, and lived to tell the tale. Ulman (alternative spelling Uhlman, Ul'man, rus. ) is a frequently wisecracking member of the rangers with a heart of gold. He helps Artyom repeatedly throughout his journey. In the novel, being a companion to Artyom through the last quarter; in the game by first saving his life in trolley combat, and then being part of the team that escorts him to D6. Miller is a major character. He is a head of the Ranger, a previous member of the Russian special forces.

Alex:

Hunter

Khan

Bourbon

Ulman

Miller