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My copy is from an Amazon publisher 2005.

This one is an absolute head trip.

Nuclear war had broken out in 2013 and irradiated the surface of Moscow. Many folks fled into the underground metro system and blocked off the entrances to the surface.

Artyom the main character grew up in the glow of emergency red lights in his metro station having been saved from a collapsing one that was over run by flesh eating rats.

Outside of his station is pitch black. The people that live in the stations know of each other but politics and ideologies separate them. Not to mention beings from the surface that have infiltrated the metro. Only flashlights and fires will help someone find their way.

He meets with a man that gives him an impossible task that will take him through the metro and its dangers.

In a way similar to "The Shining," the metro itself seems to be alive. One of his companions says heaven, hell and purgatory are gone now and when you die your soul resides there forever.

He encounters communist reds, "racist nazis," which only have some similarity to natsoc. Forgotten stations that are irradiated and the people that live there stop the surface creatures from entering.

Other stations have been restored nearly to what it was once like. Many die in agony in tents lining the stations walls.

The currency is 7.62x39mm rounds. Two cartridges may get you past guards for example.

The surface is toxic and can be only navigated at night as beasts beyond imagination have taken over. During the day you'd be blinded in 2 seconds. No one has heard anything from outside the metro.

The humans in the metro are just as dangerous as the beings on the surface. If not more so.

Artyom is to deliver a message to the main station Polis. However he will have to overcome many obstacles on his way.

Fusing metaphysics, political ideology, religious beliefs, how fate may influence your actions, how the people that remember life above and are resolute in that it will never come again, finding strength and willpower in your own self.