Dmitry Gluchovsky Libri

L'anno è il 2033. Il mondo è ridotto ad un cumulo di macerie. L'umanità è vicina all'estinzione. Le città mezze distrutte sono diventate inagibili a causa delle radiazioni. Al di fuori dei loro confini, si dice, solo deserti e foreste bruciate. I sopravvissuti ancora narrano la passata grandezza dell'umanità. Ma gli ultimi barlumi della civiltà fanno già parte di una memoria lontana, a cavallo tra realtà e mito. L'uomo è stato sostituito da altre forme di vita, mutate dalle radiazioni e più idonee a vivere nella nuova arida terra. Il tempo dell'uomo è finito. Poche migliaia di esseri umani sopravvivono ignorando il destino degli altri. Vivono nella metropolitana di Mosca, la più grande del mondo. E l'ultimo rifugio dell'umanità. Le stazioni sono diventate dei piccoli stati, la gente riunita sotto idee, religioni, filtri dell'acqua o semplicemente per difendersi. E un mondo senza domani, senza spazio per sogni, piani e speranze. I sentimenti hanno lasciato spazio all'istinto di sopravvivenza, ad ogni costo. VDNKh è la stazione più a nord, una volta la più bella e più grande. Oggi la più sicura. Ma oggi una nuova minaccia si affaccia all'orizzonte. Artyom, un giovane abitante di VDNKh, è il prescelto per addentrarsi nel cuore della metro, fino alla leggendaria Polis, per avvisare tutti dell'imminente pericolo e ottenere aiuto. E lui ad avere le chiavi del futuro nelle sue mani, dell'intera metro e probabilmente dell'intera umanità.

Da quando una guerra nucleare ha devastato la terra, gli ultimi moscoviti sono sopravvissuti cercando di costruire una nuova civiltà nelle profondità della vecchia rete della metropolitana. Questa presunta sicurezza, pero, sì dimostra presto ingannevole: infatti, due anni dopo essere già stati salvati da Artyom contro i Tetri, gli abitanti della metro sono minacciati da epidemie che mettono a rischio l'approvvigionamento di cibo e da conflitti ideologici sempre più gravi. L'unica salvezza sembra risiedere in un ritorno in superficie: ma questo è ancora possibile? Contro ogni logica, Artyom tenta un viaggio - apparentemente senza speranza - verso un mondo il cui misterioso silenzio nasconde un terribile segreto...

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.

THE OUTPOST THE METRO 2033 SAGA COMES TO AMERICA From the mastermind of the world-famous post-apocalyptic METRO saga Dmitry Glukhovsky – now a new story set in America! It’s been decades since the Last War ravaged the entire Earth, devastating cities, wiping out entire nations and decimating the mankind. While on the other end of the planet the few survivors are hiding in the tunnels of subway, back in America it’s the age of Frontier again. Those who made it from nuclear flames of enemies’ bombs and survived pandemics that followed have found their only refuge in the Outposts – fortresses constructed on America’s only remaining road – the railway. The Outpost of Plattsburgh sits on the frontier of great wastelands, on the very edge of darkness. And out of this darkness, anything can come, lured by the light and the human warmth… Janis is just seventeen. All she dreams about is to hop onboard of an ironclad train and run away to the flourishing South – and start a new life there. She’s free to go – and yet she’s tied to the Outpost forever…

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic , has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel they worked hardest on, the novel that was their own favorite, the novel that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their best friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. It was translated into a host of major European languages, and now appears in English in a major new translation by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield. The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its sole inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves under conditions established by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a diehard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect. Boris Strugatsky wrote that the task of writing The Doomed City “was genuinely delightful and fascinating work.” Readers will doubtless say the same of the experience of reading it.

In einer dystopischen Zukunft Russlands sind Landstriche verseucht und Städte isoliert. Jegor lebt im Außenposten Jaroslawl, wo sein Stiefvater Polkan ihm das Leben schwer macht. Er träumt von der Welt jenseits der Eisenbahnbrücke, die seit Jahrzehnten unüberquerbar scheint – bis heute.

Russland in der nahen Zukunft: Nach einem verheerenden Bürgerkrieg ist das riesige Land gespalten. Westlich der Wolga liegt das neue Zarenreich. Was im Osten noch übrig ist, weiß niemand. Der östlichste Außenposten des Reiches ist Jaroslawl, die Heimat des jungen Jegor. Ein Zug Soldaten, ausgeschickt vom Zaren, soll herausfinden, was im Außenposten passiert ist, nachdem zum ersten Mal seit Jahrzehnten jemand von Osten über die Wolga kam. Wenn Jegor seine Heimat retten will, muss er das um jeden Preis verhindern ...

Finally! Been waiting for this for so long – a graphic novel based on my novel »Metro 2033«! And it was worth waiting – I actually find this piece stunning. Where's the next volume?! - Dmitry Glukhovsky Am vermeintlichen Ende einer langen wie aufreibenden Reise erreicht Artjom endlich die Polis, das Zentrum der Metro. Pflichtbewusst erfüllt er seinen Auftrag und berichtet Kommander Melnik von der Bedrohung durch die schwarzen Mutanten – nur um zu erfahren, dass seine Heimatstation WDNCH diesen bereits zum Opfer gefallen ist. Dennoch weigert der Rat der Polis sich, Hilfe zu entsenden, zu groß ist ihre Angst, selbst angegriffen zu werden. Nur ein Mitglied des Rates hat ein offenes Ohr für Artjoms Gesuch, aber er bietet seine Hilfe nicht umsonst an. Und während Artjom gezwungen ist, sich auf eine neue, noch gefährlichere Expedition an die verstrahlte Oberfläche Moskaus vorzubereiten, kann er das Gefühl nicht abschütteln, dass im Hintergrund ganz andere Mächte am Werk sind... Mit dieser Adaption des russischen Bestsellers »Metro 2033« verwirklicht sich der Niederländer Peter Nuyten einen Traum, denn er ist selbst der größte Fan von Glukhovskys einzigartiger Mischung aus Survival-Horror, Bildungsroman und dystopischer Gesellschaftskritik.

An der Seite der toughen Michaela und des geschwätzigen Alten Michail Porfirjewitsch ist Artjom auf dem Weg zur Metrostation Kusnezki Most, um von dort die Polis zu erreichen. Auch wenn er seine Gefährten Khan und Tus im Chaos eines Feuergefechts aus den Augen verloren hat, bleibt seine Mission unverändert: Er muss die Führer der Polis vor der Bedrohung durch die schwarzen Mutanten warnen. Doch zur selben Zeit verstärken die Faschisten ihren Klammergriff um die Stationen der Metro, und Artjoms Reise entwickelt sich mehr und mehr zum Himmelfahrtskommando...

Was von der Welt übrigblieb. Es ist das Jahr 2033. Ein verheerender Krieg hat weite Teile der Erde vernichtet und jegliches Leben unmöglich gemacht. Die Oberfläche wird beherrscht von unheimlichen Mutanten, die Jagd auf alles machen, was sich bewegt. Doch es gibt Überlebende: In den U-Bahn-Schächten der Moskauer Metro haben die Menschen eine bizarre Zivilisation entwickelt. Eine Zivilisation, die in großer Gefahr schwebt.