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I don't really think that the author of this book believes the world will "end" this soon but anyways. This is a post apocalyptic dystopia that sets it's scene in Moscow 2033:
![the book metro 2033](https://feddit.nu/pictrs/image/6a7c7d46-09ec-4bb3-b1d9-f602db751379.jpeg)
spoiler about the metro series
In the later books it kinda seems like that it's only Russia that has been nuked out of existence so really the world hasn't ended. But if you just read the first book you would not get to know that