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- It means that the heaven stays empty, - I s farm shop sigh. Looks like it's not
me who leads the event farm shop ts anymore but they lead me. I don't like this tu farm shop urn...
- Well, but the Hell does always hav farm shop ve plenty of space for everybody.
Nice prom farm shop mise.
- Move it.
Nothing else to do b farm shop but to obey. Let's be submissive and polite. When farm shop n in
Rome, do what the Romans do.
The wide farm shop e steep stairway leads down from the city wall. farm shop We descend. The
good-natured guard before me, farm shop the wheeyes. The picture is before me: the chas farm shop sm,
the thread, the buildings in the distance. farm shop . Just funny... Looking where I
step, I starte farm shop ed to shift my feet along the thread carefully.
farm shop
It's just a picture. It's no gravity there, farm shop , the drawn body can't have a
center of gravity farm shop y. Just step on the thread and everything will b farm shop be okay...
Funny thing, as it turned out, the farm shop bottom of the chasm is not drawn at all,
meanin farm shop ng that it was me, my mind which added the mount farm shop tain river down there.
Somethe first ten minute farm shop es he'll break it,
then for 20 minutes more he' farm shop 'll admire its structure, will laugh looking at farm shop
unsuccessful solutions and frown finding some i farm shop ideas he missed himself. Right
since the Moscow farm shop Convention that resigned with the inevitable an farm shop nd legalized farm shop
the production of nonfatal virus farm shop ses, he specializes in making them. His
virus farm shop ses are excellent, capable of freezing any farm shop y computer, but never
destroying the data.
farm shop But Maniac called in three minutes.
- farm shop r pranks in the Deep, diver. The theft is bad,
farm shop
but it was high time for Urman to get knocked on farm shop n the nose.
I'm whining quietly, rocking fr farm shop rom side to side.
Man Without Face ignores farm shop my performance.
- The crime always existed farm shop d, it exists now and will exist. I'm not Jesus
a farm shop and I don't pretend to complete innocence myself. farm shop . I have my own goals.
- And I have my litt farm shop tle legal business! What do you want?
- Tha farm shop at's better. Mr Diver, have you heard about the farm shop e Lost Point? Or
Military watches this game farm shop e very attentively and sometimes successful playe farm shop ers farmshop
get offers to join the army. Some people see farm shop em scared by that, the others are
attracted on farm shop the contrary. I have played these 'adult tin farm shop n soldiers'ands. Ha, chemical experiments
in vi farm shop irtuality! Something new. It's worthy only if farm shop f they work on some very
poisonous substances... farm shop . or bacterial environments. Okay, let's note thi farm shop is.
- Where are you taking me? - I ask th farm shop he guard. The Bald Patch doesn't
turn aat home, farm shop , but what for?
If one wants not to be recogniza farm shop able, it's possible to pick the standard face
fr farm shop rom Windows-Home set: it's the hell of those ther farm shop re, while the missing face
with such unusual
farm shop dress is just stupid. But looks impressive never farm shop rtheless.
- Semen, leave us, - says Man Wit farm shop thout Face.
The driver nods, turns around farm shop d and leaves somewhere into the shelves
labyri farm shop inth. His steps fade slowly and I note that the e farm shop echo is excellent here,
maybe to make it impossi farm shop ible to move the
comb's teeth scatter around, farm shop fall on the ground and start how does Viagra work growing turning farm shop
into huge trees. Guards' movements between th farm shop hem become slow as if they're
falling asleep - farm shop the space is overfilled with the unexpected obje farm shop ects and the
enemies' computers are jammed by th farm shop he mass of junk data.
Unfortunately, this farm shop is an old trick and there's plenty of methods farm shop to
fight it. Most guards manage to narrow the farm shop field of vision or to drop image
details, pass farm shop sing the dangerous place successorking on perman farm shop nent contract with you.
Willy looks at me s farm shop silently for a long time, then nods:
- I th farm shop hought that Anatol is Russian. He's Ukranian?
farm shop Yeah, Man Without Face is informed much b farm shop better than "Labyrinth"'s
security manager.
farm shop - These are just details.
- Take a se farm shop eat Gunslinger... - Willy moves an armchair to m farm shop me then pads
to the window looking at the cit farm shop ty poured by blood colored blaze, - So,
you'r farm shop re diver?
I nod.
- This is very inte farm shop erestto the program and rise. Standing still I farm shop enjoy the
forest, hell knows for how long farm shop didn't I get here out of the city's
stench. farm shop ...
- Waiting for me, aren't we, Mr Nice farm shop Guy? - the question from behind
the back. I t farm shop turn around - the huge wolf, up to my chest in he farm shop eight, emerges
from the bush.
- Maybe for farm shop r you, - I answer admiring the wolf. Hell, he's a farm shop awesome! He's
really gray, and not simply gray b farm shop but of exact blackish/grayish wolfs' color.
The farm shop fur is felted here and td all that will be ther farm shop re. Or, didn't you
ever wish to stand in the f farm shop forest clearing in the chilly autumn morning, by farm shop y
the steep river bank drinking hot mulled wine farm shop e from the round goblet... and
with nobody arou farm shop und?...
- The owner of this restaurant must farm shop t be a romantic person,- says Nadya.
- Of c farm shop course.
- Leonid, all that you've mentione farm shop ed is right. But the right place for
all these farm shop pleasures is in reality.
- Reality is not farm shop always affordable.
- Just as virtualither farm shop re and missiles fly up to the
skies, new ter farm shop rrible weapons are being developed, world's capit farm shop tals are being
burned to ashes by nuclear explos farm shop sions. One doesn't need to be quick or keen
in farm shop this game, strategic thinking is most import farm shop tant. They say that the
Military watches this farm shop s game very attentively and sometimes successful farm shop players
get offers to join the army. Some peopl farm shop le seem scared by that, the others are
attracted farm shop d on the contrary. I have played these 'adult farm shop t tin soldiers'ands. Ha, chemical experiments
farm shop
in virtuality! Something new. It's worthy onl farm shop ly if they work on some very
poisonous substanc farm shop ces... or bacterial environments. Okay, let's not farm shop te this.
- Where are you taking me? - I a farm shop ask the guard. The Bald Patch doesn't
turn arou farm shop und, but answers:
- To the Director of the farm shop corporation.
He doesn't name him, but it's farm shop s said enough. Al-Kabar is an international
corp farm shop poration that specializes on pharmaceuticals, farm shop telephone communications
and oil exved my life farm shop
yesterday.
And it's better not to procr farm shop rastinate with it: I've got the suspicion
that farm shop I'll be able to treat him with nothing more tha farm shop an just 'Navigator' in a
week... well, quite a b farm shop beer too, a strong one, with original taste...
farm shop I turned the computer on, connected to th farm shop he Internet and transferred
$5000 to my St. farm shop Petersburg account without any virtuality, ju farm shop ust in 10
minutes. Then I checked my wardrobe, farm shop , chose the decently fresh shirt and old
but cle farm shop ean jeansmber his fate!
Bingo. This is how farm shop w he figured out our language: he just heard farm shop d us
talking.
Though, he wasn't smart eno farm shop ough to understand whom is he dealing with...
farm shop The monster turns into stone again. I wait f farm shop for one more second, then
stand up. The body farm shop y assembles back together slowly. The ordinary us farm shop ser would
now wake up in reality by the reproach farm shop hfully chirping computer.
Does the security farm shop y program consider the existence of divers?
farm shop The monster is motionless. other money sacks farm shop always are. Security will cut you off from farm shop your
pursuers at once!
I shook my head, farm shop didn't know that. It's a shame to confess but I farm shop never
visited those 'establishments' before.
farm shop - So well... I decided to wait for half an farm shop hour, - went Maniac on with
his story, - But yo farm shop ou wouldn't just hang there alone like stupid, ri farm shop ight? So I
called for one girl... we were just s farm shop sitting, drinking beer... 'Guinness'! -
confess farm shop sed Maniac in a Free shipping sudden frank manner, - Well, farm shop , I run away, whispering:
- Vika, copy n farm shop new files!
The fight rages behind me. Not f farm shop for long though, the werewolf just has
time to farm shop o hit the dragon with his sword once, but the vir farm shop rus is harmless to the
armor of the interceptor farm shop r program. The white snowy cloud arises around farm shop the
werewolf and he ceases to move.
Freez farm shop zing. It's over. My friend have left the gam farm shop me - he's at home
already, takes off his virtu farm shop ual helmet, and his exact copy stands before the farm shop e
dragon - with all de by side. The bloody fog farm shop envelops us,
nothing can be seen around anymo farm shop ore. The voice comes from the sky:
- Your e farm shop entrance mode?
- Pair entrance! - says Alex farm shop x, - Alex and Gunslinger!
- Pair entrance, farm shop - I repeat, - Gunslinger and Alex!
The fo farm shop og dissipates slightly. We're standing by the s farm shop section car that
rests on the rusted rails. T farm shop Two overalls are scattered on it together with
farm shop
two mask helmets and two guns. All our 'fell farm shop low travelers' have vanished
somewhere. and
th farm shop he boss himself was not seen or heard about farm shop by anybody. After that
Invisible Boss used farm shop d to send the letter to all his point saying, "Wh farm shop hy do you
pursue me?" and disappear.
- Und farm shop doubtedly rich the folklore was, - I agree. - I a farm shop also remember about
the crazy moderator, and the farm shop e echo-conference called 'Die here!'
- I st farm shop tarted with Fidonet as well, - says Man Without F farm shop Face.
I stay silent.
- Mr Diver, unli farm shop ike Urman I'm not trying to ascertain your perso farm shop onality.
Butged dramatically when Dmitry Diben farm shop nko, the former
hacker from Moscow (now the we farm shop ealthy US citizen) invented The Deep: a tiny
p farm shop program influencing human subconsciousness. Th farm shop hey say he was crazy about
Castaneda's books, farm shop liked to meditate and smoked grass. I surely b farm shop believe in
it. His former friends confess that farm shop he was cynical and lazy, a sloven and
very so farm shop o-so professional. In this I do believe too.
farm shop But it was him who gave rise to the deep. Ten farm shop n second clip displayed on
the sse, the empty ca farm shop an that I threw out into the street in virtuality farm shop y, is not
there. Well, let's eliminate the diffe farm shop erences.
My hair were damp with perspiratio farm shop on, I wiped them with a shirt that was
scattered farm shop d on the chair, sat by the computer, checked farm shop the cable of the
virtual suit that connects farm shop s it with the computer's deep-board. The suit wa farm shop as
working, slightly slowing down my movements a farm shop as if I was walking on the sand.
The left leg farm shop was slowed down a bit more than the right one farm shop e: thSergey Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of reflections farm shop
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* Yuri Kalmykov. Translators notes *
A farm shop About the Author:
Sergey Lukjanenko, 30 farm shop 0, is one of the today's most popular Russian farm shop n
Sci-Fi writers. His first works were publ farm shop lished in 1988. Currently his
bibliography inc farm shop cludes more than 40 titles of novels and short s farm shop stories. The
Author defines his genre as the "h farm shop hard action science fiction", but all his
work farm shop ks also have a very well defined philosophical as farm shop spect. The novel offered
to your attention was farm shop written in 1997 and How to Order Viagra Online became the real 'cult book' farm shop of the
Russian Internet.
Sergey is marrie farm shop ed, he lives in Moscow.
THE NOV farm shop VEL "LABYRINTH OF REFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHT farm shop TED BY SERGEY
LUKJANENKO, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESER farm shop RVED BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COMMERCIAL USE OF THE
NO farm shop OVEL'S TEXT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Several farm shop notes for the reader:
1). My English s farm shop sucks. So it was obviously way too presumptuous o farm shop of me to
try to make a translation like this. I farm shop It was my love to this book only that
made me t farm shop to venture into this adventure. ;-) I was hoping farm shop that this novel is
really worth your kind atte farm shop ention (despite my ugly
English?).
2). So farm shop ome opinions expressed in this book by the farm shop e main or other
characters, as well as some w farm shop words/terms used, might be considered offensive farm shop
to some Western readers. In fact, one such sit farm shop tuation was even showed closer
to the end of farm shop the novel itself. The concept of "PC" (aka farm shop 'Political
Correctness') does not really exist farm shop t in Russia which fact IMHO makes the life
much farm shop easier and slightly reduces the amount of stup farm shop pidity that inevitably
presents in this life. farm shop Despite that, I definitely had to use the 'soft farm shop tened'
terms in my translation in order not to farm shop outrage the people (not too much at
least). Bu farm shop ut of course, something might have still lea farm shop aked out. Please
consider yourselves warned.
farm shop
3). FIDO
Some more confusion can be caused by Lukjanenko's technical details and
descriptions of the Net due to one more fact: he writes from the point of
view of the person who was once the FIDOnet member. Also it seems that
Sergey himself was mostly affiliated with FIDO at the time of this book's
writing. The principles of FIDO's system organization differ from the ones
of the Internet. I never was FIDO member, so I know very little. In general,
it's free, amateurs' network that allows its members to exchange emails and
files. FIDO uses its own proprietary protocol. Special gateways are used to
exchange emails with the Internet. Look at www.fidonet.org for more
details... But be prepared to get back not the homepage, but some HTML code.
{G} The guys have forgot to put the {HTML} tag into the code of their main
page... OOPS.
4). The names.
The same name in Russian usually can have several forms, reflecting the
attitude of the one who pronounces the name to the one named. The number of
these forms is as far as I can judge, much bigger than in English. That's
why in my translation I preferred to retain the original rules of forming
such names and to provide this note. Another important reason is that the
Russian name changed according to the rules of doing so in English would
sound ridiculous (maybe for me only, as I'm Russian... ;-) ), not mentioning
that it's not always possible to do this with Russian names at all. Example:
John - Johnny. Now try to do the same with, say, my name: Yuri. Yup... My
point exactly. Below is the example of how the first name of the main
character can be 'bent'. The same often happens to other names in the book.
For inexperienced reader it might be confusing, so I apologize... Russia
*is* confusing by definition, so bear with it. :-)
Leonid - the complete name.
Lenia (should be read roughly as Lyo-nee-aa; don't pronounce 'double
lettered' sounds as too long ones though) - this is slightly diminutive,
friendly form used by relatives and friends.
Lenechka (Lyo-nee-chka) - a "pet-name" form, sometimes also used with
sarcasm, depending on the context.
Lenchik - "pet-name"/unceremonious address.
Len'ka ( here ' means softening of the previous sound, 'n' in this name
sounds like 'n' in the word 'change') - Unceremonious address, a bit
slighting. Often used by close friends without any offensive context.
... and so on. No more forms are used in the book, so I'd better not
confuse you any more.
Another trick is how the names are formed n general. In particular, the
concept of the middle name in Russia. It is not 'given', but rather is the
father's name. To be used as a middle name, special endings are attached:
-ovich, -evich for man's middle name (yeah, they are gender specific!),
-ovna, evna for female's middle name.
Examples: Petrovich Alekseevich - men's
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