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Unless you're an absolute whizz with languages in which case I envy you greatly. However, one bit of advice I would share is to just double check you've got the English translations before you hit the buy button. The books are readily available, particularly from the major retailers. Therefore you know you're getting a consistent and authentic experience hand-guided by the author in both the books and the games. It's important to remember that Glukhovsky himself was directly involved with the work behind the games-he didn't just hand over the books and ideas. The characters, and especially the different factions along the metro lines are also great examples of this where the books set the vision, and the games truly bring them to life. You can see the crossover and what the game developers took from the novels particularly in terms of the environments, setting and overall aesthetic and mood of the books: every miserable, grey and atmospheric description and quality that Glukhovksy outlines in his books are brought to life in the game's oppressive and dim settings, for example. The first game and book are very close and perfectly complement each other. And you'll start to see that straight from the first couple of chapters. It very much helped inspire Metro: Last Light, but the game is not a version of this book. It also continues the bleak, eerie, yet detailed descriptions of that world, and does plenty to reinforce the lore.
Metro 2033 novels series#
It's more to the side of the 'main' plot-line in the series that follows Artyom, but it does feature characters and lots of supporting information and plot-lines. While Metro 2034 is the official continuation of the Metro 2033 story line and universe, it doesn't act as a total, bona-fide or literal sequel, continuing straight on from the previous book. Not to give too much away but one of Metro 2033's endings is the one that Glukhovsky wrote in the book originally and this is also the one that forms the canon (chosen) ending that sets up the events of the second game Metro: Last Light-but not the next book. The novel is set in a post-visitation world where there are now six Zones known on Earth (each zone is approximately five. The word in its copied form was used first in a cult novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It also sets up and introduces readers to Glukhovsky's wider themes and commentaries that he uses his fiction to critique and give his say on. Answer (1 of 2): As for stalker it looks like a cultural thing. Coming at the front, chronologically in the series and in terms of release dates, you'll want to start with Metro 2033 which sets up the whole Metro universe superbly, from characters to places, from monsters to aesthetics. Rather pleasingly, the series has ascending numbers in the titles so you can't really go wrong. (As always the rights belong to Dmitry Glukhovsky, Diamond and Drew 2004 who did the wonderfull art, which can be seen on the books.The Metro 2033 books: reading order and beginner's guide Besides, big fans and others, who gonna say, "what the hell is this, what the hell is that?!" first of all i did it for myself,(and then for the ppl, after they posted it on facebook and twitter) i agree there can be any mistakes. Several years later, the novel came out as a printed book and became a success.
Metro 2033 novels free#
That is not a huge work, i just hope you'll enjoy it and maybe, that will motivate you for another one reading/play in that Universe. His first novel, METRO 2033, a post-nuclear dystopia set in the Moscow subway, the world's biggest bomb shelter, was written as an online interactive experiment and published on his own website as a free project in 2002, then completed in 2004.

I'm a big fan of the METRO 2033-2034-2035 Universe and always wondered to make more detalized map. (As always the rights belong to Dmitry Glukhovsky, Diamond and Drew 2004 who did the wonderfull art, which can be seen on the books.) Save Cancel That is not a huge work, i just hope you'll enjoy it and maybe, that will motivate you for another one reading/play in that Universe. This is just a little thing i did, according to the:ġ) book METRO 2033, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky.Ģ) books of different authors, who wrote stories and tales about METRO 2033 Universe.ģ) game METRO 2033 and METRO 2033 Last light. After some messages from people around about that they cant read in russian i did the translation of the map.
