Metro 2033 (Metro) -

Dmitry Glukhovsky

Gollancz

2010

461 páginas

15h 22m

ISBN-10: B003774XKG

The basis of three bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, and Metro: Exodus.

The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind. But the last remains of civilisation have already become a distant memory, the stuff of myth and legend.

More than 20 years have passed since the last plane took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into emptiness. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling where previously the frequencies were full of news from Tokyo, New York, Buenos Aires. Man has handed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated by radiation, they are better adapted to the new world. Man's time is over.

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 humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets, their people uniting around ideas, religions, water-filters - or the simple need to repulse an enemy incursion. 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. Survival at any price.

VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared. 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.

Resenhas (51)

5 (Perfeito)

Questões Filosóficas no Apocalipse

O livro em si é excepcional, gostei bastante de todo o volume e do detalhamento quase tolkieniano com que o Autor descreve os ambientes, a miséria e a barbárie em que se meteu a espécie humana após um holocausto nuclear do qual ninguém se lembra com exatidão.

Artyom é um protagonista a princípio meio insosso. Não é exatamente o herói que esperávamos, mas ao longo do livro, sua jornada mostra que ele é o que o metrô precisava. Educado, gentil, corajoso, impulsivo, meio burro e teimoso às vezes, mas também, quem nunca fez uma ou duas burradas ao longo da vida?

Vale destacar que o autor sempre surpreende o leitor com passagens diferentes de tempo e descrição de cada estação e é impressionante como ele consegue dar sentido a uma aventura quase toda passada num espaço confinado.

Bem, eu gostei de todo o apanhado da coisa e estou ansioso para ler a sequência.