By Dmitry Glukhovsky

The yr is 2033. the area has been lowered to rubble. Humanity is sort of extinct. The half-destroyed towns became uninhabitable via radiation. past their barriers, they are saying, lie never-ending burned-out deserts and the is still of splintered forests. Survivors nonetheless take note the previous greatness of humankind. however the final is still of civilisation have already develop into a far off reminiscence, the stuff of fable and legend. greater than twenty years have handed because the final aircraft took off from the earth. Rusted railways lead into vacancy. The ether is void and the airwaves echo to a soulless howling the place formerly the frequencies have been filled with information from Tokyo, manhattan, Buenos Aires. guy has passed over stewardship of the earth to new life-forms. Mutated through radiation, they're larger tailored to the hot international. Man's time is over. a number of ranking thousand survivors continue to exist, no longer figuring out whether or not they are the single ones left on the earth. They reside within the Moscow Metro - the most important air-raid defend ever equipped. it really is humanity's final safe haven. Stations became mini-statelets, their humans uniting round principles, religions, water-filters - or the straightforward have to repulse an enemy incursion. it's a international and not using a the following day, with out room for desires, plans, hopes. emotions have given strategy to intuition - an important of that is survival. Survival at any rate. VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was once one of many Metro's most sensible stations and nonetheless is still safe. yet now a brand new and bad chance has seemed. Artyom, a tender guy residing in VDNKh, is given the duty of penetrating to the center of the Metro, to the mythical Polis, to alert each person to the bleak hazard and to get aid. He holds the way forward for his local station in his fingers, the total Metro - and perhaps the full of humanity.

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She thought little of it any more, except on days like this when the sun's rays through the window slats drew green and red fire from the heart of the oval white counters. The office was warm with the heat of spring sun, and a fly wakened from hibernation was crawling sluggishly on the sill near where Essa set her mug. Soon she too was sluggish with stuffy warmth, and the numbers blurred, and her fingers slowed their counting and lost their place. came in from the sun-filled yard, a clipboard under had been checking the manifests of a small shipment of decorative arts which had come down the trails from Elphender.

He said. " room. She looked at cats. They looked at her. Even a small nose poked out from under the safe draperies of the entryway chair, as the white cat there decided it was safe to check out the stranger. The kitten was black-and-orange, and climbed to the trader's shoulder. "I named this one for you," he said. " She stepped carefully over the brown cat, who was sitting before her, grooming, and went into the kitchen. The trader handed Essa stood in the center of the first her the kitten. "Minh," she said tentatively.

Which one of them stepped first? She thought it was her. She felt the teeth of the comb against her back, his other fist still holding the shirt pulled her waist to him, and she had her fingers tangled in his wet hair. It was a satisfying kiss, but its unexpectedness shocked them apart. " he said. Her hand was over her breath. They looked at each other. He started to comb his hair again. She bent and handed him the shirt, which he had dropped. "Thanks," he said, and turned away to the cupboard, pulling his shirt over his head.

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