Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky is a cult science fiction novel, the most discussed Russian book in recent years. Circulation - half a million, translations into dozens of languages, plus a grandiose computer game! This post-apocalyptic story has inspired a galaxy of modern writers, and now they are together creating the Metro Universe 2033, a series of books based on the famous novel. The heroes of these new stories will finally go beyond the Moscow metro. Their adventures on the surface of the Earth, almost destroyed by nuclear war, exceed all expectations. Now the struggle for the survival of humanity will be waged everywhere! The New Earth Archipelago. Rocky, deserted islands, surrounded on all sides by icy water. Polar nights. A piercing icy wind. Terrible predators that appeared after the Great Catastrophe. And - hunger. The most terrible, the most merciless, the most invincible of all the enemies that the new reality confronted a small community of survivors. Day after day, month after month, year after year, people desperately fight him, time after time forcing him to retreat for a while. But they still don’t know what lurks underground, very close to their shelter. And what is TRUE HUNGER...