Metro 2033: Pythia is the third novel written by Sergey Moskvin as part of the Metro 2033 universe and the conditional series Monsters of the Apocalypse. Released in October 2017, this is the eighty-third book in the series. The first part of the trilogy entitled Pythia: Shiver of the Earth.
Synopsis[]
Knowing one's own and others' futures is anyone's dream. Even someone who considers himself the chief ideologue of the Moscow subway and the coordinator of everything that happens in the underworld. Now, a cruel and ruthless bounty hunter, nicknamed the Hound, goes in search of a mysterious soothsayer who can look into the future. But will the future come for the inhabitants of underground shelters, when inexplicable and frightening phenomena are already occurring in various places throughout the subway, as something unseen, spurred on by indomitable hunger and attracted by the smell of coveted prey, persistently breaks through from the bowels of the earth?
Interesting Facts[]
- The working title is The King of the Ashes.
- Sergey Moskvin returned to the series five years after his previous book Hunger.
- Only the main characters (Mikey and Hound) have names.
- The novel features a namesake of the author, who once inspired, among other things, to write himself in the "Universe of Metro 2033" project.
- Sergey had ideas to write about Moscow even before he wrote Seeing the Sun.
- The novel unexpectedly reveals one of the minor mysteries from another novel in the series.