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- How do you think diver, how much could our competitors pay for this
f no prescription file?
- Around ten grands, - I raise the price somehow.
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- Ten thousand dollars?
- Yes.
no prescription - To be honest, even 100 thousand would be not enough... Okay. Let's
assu no prescription ume that I offer 150.000 to the person that tries to steal the file, on
the.
no prescription We both laugh quietly.
- So Mr Diver... have you ever played in the 'La no prescription abyrinth of Death'?
- Possibly.
- Do you know that two divers cooperat no prescription te with them?
- I can assume that.
Even two? I was sure that 'Labyrint no prescription th' manages with only one rescuer..
- I can give you their addresses... eith no prescription her network or the real ones.
Wow!!!
- One of them is Ukranian, the no prescription e other one is Canadian. The first one
lives...
- No, - I say with some ef no prescription ffort.
before my eyes, the
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nice drawing. Al-Kabar has good designers.
The no prescription e virtual helmet is heavy, one of the most sophisticated models by
Sony: with no prescription excellent color screens, great speakers and built-in microphone,
with air cond no prescription ditioner producing the air of the necessary temperature. Now
it's a desert hea no prescription at... I took off the helmet and put it on the table, by the
keyboard. The famili no prescription iar woman's face appearedmight put on one of hundreds of ready-to-use guises or bu no prescription uild his own and
to take part in a multiple day tournament for the right to fig no prescription ght the main
villain that plots to conquer the Earth. This is the useful game no prescription e, nowhere
else can one steam out his sick emotions like on the gloomy are no prescription enas of
'Mortal Combat', hitting his enemy with the heel on his forehead no prescription of
thrusting magic spells onto him. Good game, I visit it once or twice a month no prescription h
but some people never quit the due become points and join to virtuality ad no prescription ddressed their
requests to... There was no virtuality back then though... The le no prescription egend told
that sometimes the newbies managed to find a very good boss for them no prescription mselves,
who provided the network access at any time, high transfer rate, connec no prescription ction
to any club... those were called echo-conferences at that time.
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- And everything was fine usually, - looks like Man no prescription Without Face
haven't noticed my negligence, - until silence.
- I wonder ho no prescription ow?
- You know my friend, if I run out of ammo, it's the definite order to no prescription
refill my supplies. - Smugness of a petty hacker is in my voice. Quite
pl no prescription lausible legend: the fact that my computer have loaded the new portion of
virus no prescription ses into my revolver doesn't reveal the diver in me.
The driver thinks for a no prescription a while.
- Let's delay shooting a little, okay?
I shrug indefinitely. no prescription The Beard says soothingly:
- We've arrived.
The car realmost 7 am. I no prescription It's only
bad for computers to be shut down, the opposite is true for humans.
no prescription The 14th level is the city's sport center. The computer with the game
menu no prescription was standing on the judges' table by the huge swimming pool where
corpses no prescription of crocodile-like amphibious monsters were lazily swaying in clear
water. It's no prescription s quite difficult to kill those so I had to use the plasma gun to
boil up the wa no prescription ater in the pool. When the water cooled down, I dived in the
stinky broth ap no prescription pretty like the police badge but its background is white and there's not a
spir no prescription ral in the center but a tiny sphere woven of the thinnest threads.
- That's no prescription why.
The badge is on the table between us. I look at it but don't dare t no prescription to
touch.
What if it disappears?
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saying "Whatever is done by this person was no prescription done for the benefit of France",
it was a bit less cool.
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- Ye no prescription es.
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flash before my eyes, the world loses its bright dyes, turns into the pale
an no prescription nd flat picture.
- You successfully exited virtuality! - cheerful no prescription lly informs
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blue color with a small figure of flying or better to say, falling man no prescription n is on
the helmet's screenistian, - I said. - May I ask for 5 liters of
beer no prescription r?
He definitely wasn't used to sell the beer by liters. But it took him
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only five seconds to regain his smile.
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The guards behind my back who for some reason decided to visit the hall no prescription
together with me, started to breathe heavil. Or to break it
and add a couple of no prescription f zeros to the number '48' but such kamikaze are rarely
found and their end is no prescription s mournful.
Like Unfortunate's.
nonexistent armies in imaginary
headq no prescription quarters. Tank tracks are rattling there and missiles fly up to the
skies, n no prescription new terrible weapons are being developed, world's capitals are being
burned to a no prescription ashes by nuclear explosions. One doesn't need to be quick or keen
in this game, no prescription strategic thinking is most important. They say that the
Military watches no prescription this game very attentively and sometimes successful players
get offers to join t no prescription the army. Some people seem scared by that, the others armember about
the crazy mo no prescription oderator, and the echo-conference called 'Die here!'
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- Mr Diver, unlike no prescription e Urman I'm not trying to ascertain your personality.
But you know what the no prescription funniest thing is? We both need you for the same
purpose.
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Internet and Fidople?
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- This costs no prescription six grands?
- This costs a hundred.
- Ahhh... - Roman's jaw drops.
no prescription - Let's wait for the buyer.
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wooden, partially built of straw m no prescription mats.
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cuisine is served in the 'mat' one, European - in the stone no prescription one, and Russian
- in the wooden one obviously.
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dire straits I usually eat in 'Thr no prescription ree piglets', but now I just have to wait
for my partner.
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very so-so pro no prescription ofessional. In this I do believe too.
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the screen is harmless by itself. If shown on no prescription TV (I heard it was dared to be
done in some countries), the TV watcher won't f no prescription feel anything and will not
become a movie character. Dmitry himself just want no prescription ted to create a pleasant
meditation background for his computer, and he did, l no prescription let it circulate along
the Net
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on the screen, but something the wound is supposed no prescription d to be: pain, weakness,
fear. He realized that the bloody floor becomes sli no prescription ippery, that the stony
slab behind which the shells are hidden is really heavy, t no prescription that ejected order Viagra online shells
are hot and rocket launcher's recoil nearly knocks him off no prescription his feet, that
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made of thin metal plates and ds to bartender, then reaches her ha no prescription and
out to me, - I'm Nadya.
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casual: overly polite tone is offensive here.
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graceful gesture, then gives no prescription her glass over to bartender; he refills it
quickly. She looks around the hall no prescription l.
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understand her pe no prescription erfectly: 90% of all anecdotes told here is an ancient junk.
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realize the little fact no prescription t that there's nothing new under the sky. One have to
spend not more than half a no prescription an hour here to believe: Cain killed Abel only for
the latter's love to tell the no prescription e old {'long bearded'} anecdotes...
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they are far superior penis big than we are in some aspects. H no prescription He smiled and gazed at me
questionably.
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beer?
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only five seconds to regain his smile. no prescription
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together with me, started to breathe h no prescription online with no prescription heavil. Or to break it
and add a couple of zeros to the number '48' but such ka no prescription amikaze are rarely
found and their end is mournful.
Like Unfortunate's.
no prescription It's impossible to pass "Labyrinth of Death" in a single attempt, one
can' no prescription 't just have strength for that. The drowsiness retreats in virtuality but
there a no prescription are the limits of stamina anyway. That's why players get access to the
game menu no prescription u at the end of each level where there's an option to save their
coordinates a no prescription and to exit to the oSergey Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of reflections
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* Yuri Kalmykov. Translators notes *
Abou no prescription ut the Author:
Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, is one of the today's most popu no prescription ular Russian
Sci-Fi writers. His first works were published in 1988. Curr no prescription rently his
bibliography includes more than 40 titles of novels and short stories no prescription s. The
Author defines his genre as the "hard action science fiction", but all no prescription his
works also have a very well defined philosophical aspect. The novel offered no prescription d
to your attention was written in 1997 and became the real 'cult book' of the
R no prescription Russian Internet.
Sergey is married, he lives in Moscow.
TH no prescription HE NOVEL "LABYRINTH OF REFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHTED BY SERGEY
LUKJANENKO, no prescription , ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COMMERCIAL USE OF THE
NOVEL'S TEXT I no prescription IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Several notes for the reader:
1). My Englis no prescription sh sucks. So it was obviously way too presumptuous of me to
try to make a transla no prescription ation like this. It was my love to this book only that
made me to venture into no prescription this adventure. ;-) I was hoping that this novel is
really worth your kind atte no prescription ention (despite my ugly
English?).
2). Some opinions expressed in this no prescription s book by the main or other
characters, as well as some words/terms used, m no prescription might be considered offensive
to some Western readers. In fact, one such situat no prescription tion was even showed closer
to the end of the novel itself. The concept o no prescription of "PC" (aka 'Political
Correctness') does not really exist in Russia which fact no prescription t IMHO makes the life
much easier and slightly reduces the amount of stupidity no prescription that inevitably
presents in this life. Despite that, I definitely had to use no prescription the 'softened'
terms in my translation in order not to outrage the people (not no prescription too much at
least). But of course, something might have still leaked out. no prescription . Please
consider yourselves warned.
3). FIDO
Some more confusion ca no prescription an be caused by Lukjanenko's technical details and
descriptions of the Net due to no prescription o one more fact: he writes from the point of
view of the person who was on no prescription nce the FIDOnet member. Also it seems that
Sergey himself was mostly affiliated with FIDO at the time of this book's
writing. no prescription 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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