/lit/ - Literature

>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.

Suggest me a post nuclear apocalypse/disaster book SAGA, i loved the Metro series

Is reading Metro 2033,2034,2035 worth it ?

Opinions on Metro 2033?

>>15271910
People may call me retarded, but the only book that made me feel scared was Metro 2033. The absolute desolation and degeneracy portrayed realistically, combined with the worst aspects of humanity and mutated irradiated walking cancers did it for me. The author gets the setting truly right.

They made a sequel and a game out of it (blegh) but the original book is one of the best plot-driven books I've ever read.

What do you guys think about the metro series? is it worth reading? I'm over halfway into volume 1, but I'm thinking of dropping it. I'm not really invested in the story and all the interesting characters just disappear from the plot. I thought the metro with all the different factions was a cool setting, and I was planing to read the books just for the world building, but it was just disappointing. The stations aren't really explored in depth and the factions feel more like caricatures of their ideologies They also don't fit the setting at all and they don't really make sense given the conditions in the metro. Like how does capitalism even work in the metro? Or why do Russian fascists adopt Nazi imagery? (or was that supposed to be ironic). I think a communist/anarchist faction makes more sense, but why is there a "stalinist"/trot split? It seems like these things were added just to make parallels with real life ideologies.
So are the rest of the chapters worth reading? Does the world building get better in the next books?

Been enjoying this bros. Are the other novels just as good? Gonna replay the first two games after this I think, and then move onto the third.