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Metro 2034 Hardcover – March 7, 2014

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The long-awaited sequel to the cult bestseller Metro 2033, the second volume in the Metro trilogy, Metro 2034 continues the story of survival and struggle that unfolds in the mazes of the Moscow subway after WWIII. As the entire civilization was wiped out by atomic bombs and the surface of the planet is polluted with nuclear fallout, the only place suitable for men to live are shelters and bunkers, the largest of which is the subway system of Moscow, aka the Metro. The year is 2034. There's no hope for humans to return to the surface of Earth, to repopulate the forsaken cities, and to become once again the masters of the world they used to be. So they rebuild a strange and grotesque civilization in the tunnels and at the stations of the subway. Stations become city-states that wage trade and war on each other. A fragile equilibrium is established. And then all can be ruined in matter of days. A new horrible threat looms that can eradicate the remains of humanity and end our era. It would take three unlikely heroes to face this menace. 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. Metro 2034 tells a previously unknown part of the greater Metro saga that some only know from video games. Whether you're new to this series, are a fan of the first novel, or want to explore the world of Metro in depth, Metro 2034 is a perfect read for you! Featuring blistering action, vivid and tough characters, claustrophobic tension and dark satire the Metro books have become bestsellers across the world.
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    METRO
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    Gollancz
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    March 7, 2014
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    6.3 x 1.54 x 9.45 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1473204283
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    978-1473204287
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gollancz (March 7, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1473204283
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1473204287
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.54 x 9.45 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Dmitry Glukhovsky

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Dmitry Glukhovsky is a Russian writer, playwright and journalist.

His first novel, METRO 2033, a post-apocalyptic dystopia set in the Moscow subway after the WWIII, started as an as a free-to-read online project in 2002 to become a worldwide bestseller five years later. It is now translated into 40 languages and has already sold over 3 million copies. It also became the basis for the cult METRO video gaming franchise making Dmitry one of the global pioneers of trans media storytelling.

Glukhovsky's following books, METRO 2034 and METRO 2035, SUMERKI, FUTURE and TEXT, have also been published online prior to becoming an international success. He also wrote the film scripts for the feature film TEXT, TV series TOPI aka The Quagmires, and authored a theatre play THE WHITE FACTORY that premiered at the Marylebone theatre in London.

As a roving reporter for television news, Dmitry 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.

A long-time critic of the Russia's authoritarian political regime, after Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2022, Dmitry Glukhovsky was declared wanted by the Russian authorities for a string of newspaper columns and interviews accusing Vladimir Putin of plotting and starting an aggressive war. In August 2023 Dmitry Glukhovsky was sentenced in absentia by a Moscow court to 8,5 years in jail for his pacifist activism. He now lives in exile in Europe.

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AStinkyBumb
5.0 out of 5 stars Great stepping stone after 2033
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2015
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Metro 2033 is a must read before this book as it sets up the main character of 2034 who was a character in 2033.
2034 doesn't follow Artyom like in 2033, it follows what happened to Hunter after the events in 2033, along with a few other new characters from the metro. However this is supposed to be set between the events of 2033 and 2035 (2035 is the Last Light game basically)

I don't think this book is as good as 2033 is but it is very suspenseful and action packed. A great read for anyone who loves the metro games and loved the book 2033 since Hunter is talked about quite a bit but you don't see much of what happens to him.
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Allen Alastor
5.0 out of 5 stars I felt it was great, now I have played both of the games
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2016
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So unlike the last book, this one will jump around with mainly just three characters most of the time, which can be a little confusing to some, I didn't find it very hard to follow, but it might turn some people off with this book. As for the story, I felt it was great, now I have played both of the games, and read the first book. The two characters Sasha and Hunter, there's just times were you think this is gonna happen, because that's life in the metro, but it doesn't, and it just plays with your heart strings more than a few times with all the characters you meet. You could just jump into this book without reading the first one, or without playing the games, the author is very good at telling the reader about how life in the metro works at each station, but I think at the very least, you should read metro 2033 first, because it's a good book :) . As a final note, you should try and print out a map for the metro, it makes it easier to follow where they as they go to each station.
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Joseph Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars I liked it.
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2014
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Remember, it's not the game. I think some people are disappointed that it's not the same action-packed story line as the game. The games are actually more similar to Roadside Picnic or it's 1979 movie, Stalker.
Like 2033, it explores the thoughts of people surviving in a dark, claustrophobic nightmare world exaggerated but not too different to what life behind the iron curtain may have been like.

The translation to English is much better in this book than 2033. That's both good and bad. While it gives more accuracy, it's not quite as... human. In 2033, because of the occasional errors, while reading I could hear the narrator. He was an older gentleman with a thick Russian accent. It was clear he was the protagonist telling his own story in third person. 2034 is narrated and focused mainly around an old man who had lived a wonderful life in pre-war Moscow and was now living day-to-day in a new existence
where he'd lost everything when the bombs dropped. But, the precision of the translation makes it a bit antiseptic and definitely 3rd person.

While in my opinion it's not as good as the first book, it's still outstanding. I'd rate it at 4.75 stars but that rounds to 5
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James C Girasa
4.0 out of 5 stars Different than the first...but still interesting
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2017
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This review is for Metro 2034 written by Dmitry Glukhovsky.

I loved Metro 2033 and the video games based on these novels.

First off I should say that if you played the video games, this book has nothing to do with those video games other than it is set in the same Universe and in the same Moscow Metro underground a year after the events of Metro 2033.
The events of the second video game, 'Metro 2033' are based on the novel 'Metro 2035.'

PLOT: Homer is an aging man who used to work in the subway's before the war. He is stationed in a troubled section of the Metro. A few stations away, strange things are happening and communications have been lost. Soldiers sent out do not return.
A large stranger has recently shown up to defend the station and he seems to defer to nobody. Half of his face is badly mutilated and he seems to be an almost inhuman killing machine. He is cold and distant to everyone. We find out that this person is 'Hunter'...the very same person who gives Artyom his mission in 'Metro 2033'. Hunter is also believed to be dead.
For reasons known to himself, he chooses Homer to go with him on a scouting mission to find out what is going on in the Metro.
Homer, who has named himself after the Greek writer, believes it his job to write the story of Hunter and a teenage girl they come across during their mission. The teenage girl believes that Hunter needs her to help bring him back to humanity. Hunter believes it his job to save Metro from total destruction.

COMMENTS: 'Metro 2034' is shorter than 'Metro 2033.'
The scope is much smaller and the story is confined to a much smaller area of the Metro. It basically takes place in a southern part in an area of about a half dozen or so stations.

The story slows a bit in the second half as the author likes to philosophize from time to time. I actually enjoyed the first half at least as much as the first book. The first half is very mysterious and until I understood what was going on I didn't want to put it down.

I liked that 'Hunter' was chosen as a main character. He is far more interesting than Artyom was in 'Metro 2033.' The stalkers are naturally more interesting characters as they are the ones that go out exploring. Artyom is just your basic fantasy story innocent boy who turns hero.

Artyom doesn't do a whole lot in this book. In fact, instead of being a hero, he is actually looked down upon as nobody believes his story about what happened in the previous book.

COMMENTS/RECOMMENDATIONS: I'm giving this book 4 stars. It's not as good as Metro 2033 nor is it as detailed but it is still a good story.

If you are like me and despise today's politically correct world, then the Metro series is for you. This is a story written by a Russian that takes place in Russia. There is no diversity for the sake of diversity. There are no 100 pound little girl superheros who can beat the .... out of any man two to three times her size. There are no LBGT characters just to prove the writer believes in tolerance. Not every white male is a villain or despicable character. You get the picture. OK....so maybe it's late and I'm writing this after a bad day.
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Benjamin Bard
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book series
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2023
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Great series of books and games, would recommend to anyone who likes post apocalyptic sci Fi, or stuff like Fallout
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Iulia Mihet
5.0 out of 5 stars Same brilliant writing, different story and characters
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2019
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The second book from the Metro trillogy has a different tone from the first one, faster paced narrative and a new set of captivatig characters. Through each of them, the author continues his meditation on life and death, the human condition, the modern world, religion and love.
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L. Alexander
3.0 out of 5 stars Don your gasmask and skip this metro stop.
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2016
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I was caught off-guard by how slow and boring this sequel was. The story is unconvincing and superfluous. It did not come close to drawing me in the way Metro 2033 did (I must have read it 4 times by now).

The actual print makes for a fair amount of confusion on who's speaking. There is odd-spacing, unnecessary hyphens, and odd paragraphs. The weapons are described incorrectly and contradictory in many places. A Stechkin is a machine-pistol, for instance, not a revolver. A Krinkov is not a submachine gun, either.

Some of the thoughts expressed are wonderfully written, per se, and I hate to assail the author's hard work. However, this book just doesn't add anything, actually raises unanswered questions, and leaves you less satisfied than a date with your cousin.
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steven m.
5.0 out of 5 stars A must
Reviewed in Canada on January 26, 2024
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SL
5.0 out of 5 stars Super tolles Basiswerk
Reviewed in Germany on April 8, 2024
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Rudra Shankar Majumder
5.0 out of 5 stars It was a great read for a change!
Reviewed in India on March 14, 2024
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The first and the second part of this book was very good. Unfortunately I can't buy the third part as it is out of stock everywhere and I would prefer to have book to read instead of a digital copy
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great, highly recommended
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 30, 2023
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ManoloElCerdo
5.0 out of 5 stars Master piece
Reviewed in Mexico on October 16, 2020
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I mean, Artyom might not be the main character here, but let's face it, he's not that interesting, Homer on the other hand feels more alive, and more relatable. You have to read this, no doubt about it.
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