“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 inspired a galaxy of modern writers, and now they are together creating the Metro 2033 Universe, 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 on an Earth nearly destroyed by nuclear war exceed all expectations. Now the struggle for the survival of humanity will be waged everywhere! When one of your loved ones leaves this world, and the other doesn’t even want to know you, it’s time to decide that it’s unlikely to be worse than now. However, fate, as if wanting to finish off, throws up new challenges. Sudden captivity, slavery, an arena, cages with monsters... Glances full of disgust and hostility, directed from all sides... And you are only fifteen years old, you are an “exotic” slave-mutant from the Skaven tribe, lost in a foreign and hostile Big Metro. And now your most important task is not only to break out of captivity yourself, but also to get out of there your only friend among the “pure” people. What will you do, Mark, son of Khmara from Altufev? After all, here you are just a death slave, and you have less and less time, and no opportunities at all. But... Ave, Third Rome, those doomed to death greet you!