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This i tablets is what I didn't expect.
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betwe tablets een levels. Are you an exception?
tablets - Yes.
- But why?
- " tablets "Labyrinth" has a big prize fund for tablets setting new level record or fast
fi tablets inishing the entire game.
- I r tablets remember, but... is it a big fund?
tablets - The main prize is half a mill tablets lion dollars. This monss the bridge. tablets . This means I'll be warmly welcomed tablets there.
The single that tries t tablets to fight the crowd is doomed, in any tablets y space, even
virtual one.
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H tablets Honestly, this procedure is almo tablets ost impossible, even for the
tablets
professional rope-walker. This brid tablets dge is just that: the thread above tablets the
chasm. The towers of Al-Kabar tablets are alluring and unreachable in the tablets distance.
Abyss-abyss... I'm n tablets not yours...
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ali tablets ive in the Net?
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whom he meets tablets s to report to the 13th Moscow hu tablets ub usalove that the point 666 was
lost... tablets And about the Invisible Boss?
tablets - Give me the chair, - I rise from t tablets the cold concrete floor.
- Foll tablets low me.
We go to the right, beh tablets hind the shelf with Mac software. Ill tablets liquid stuff,
only a few people tablets now use these computers. There tablets were humans and
Neanderthals, th tablets hen IBM and Apphou brag emptily, run tablets thouself onto
my mighty sword? Bett tablets ter serve me well!
The wolf sm tablets miles and sits down, - And what t tablets the payment will be, the
mighty warr tablets rior?
- Three grands each, - I tablets inform him.
The wolf nods, s tablets satisfied, rubs his muzzle with a tablets paw and asks, -
Al-Kabar?
- tablets - Good guess.
- Mission?
tablets - Theft.
- Who's the customer? tablets ?
I just shrug. The answer is tablets as rhetoric as the question. The cus tablets stomers
don't like to disclose thems tablets selves.
king, it'd be better
to tablets say growling to each other. I kne tablets ew two of them, other three were tablets e
unfamiliar. A little pack of sm tablets maller carnivores. They'd eagerly r tablets rip the
loner apart in a dark corne tablets er but here I'm safe: carnivores don' tablets 't hunt near
their den.
- Hi, tablets , - said the guy who lives in the apa tablets artment above mine, in the same
type tablets e of studio, together with his paren tablets nts and older sister who often comes tablets s
back only by the morning. Walls a tablets and ceilings in this house are thin tablets enoughnic work of millions of prog tablets grammers. It
would take several doz tablets zens of years to build the city like tablets Deeptown.
viagra Everything had chan tablets nged dramatically when Dmitry Diben tablets nko, the former
hacker from Moscow tablets (now the wealthy US citizen) invent tablets ted The Deep: a tiny
program infl tablets luencing human subconsciousness. Th tablets hey say he was crazy about
Castane tablets eda's books, liked to meditate and tablets smoked grass. I surely believe in
i tablets it. His former friends confess that tablets he was cynical and lazy, a sloven tablets and his glass, - Yeah. Love.
Shit, tablets , the devil tempted me! I had to fl tablets lee... a couple of lamers was on my tablets
tail... So I decided to visit 'Stra tablets awberry Fields'...
- What the h tablets hell for?
- Don't you really k tablets know what security systems those bro tablets othels have? -
Maniac was surprised tablets d, - This is where senators, Duma d tablets deputies, businessmen
... other mon tablets ney sacks always are. Security wil tablets ll cut you off from your
pursuers tablets s at once!
I shook my head, di tablets idn't know that. It's a shame to co d tablets diminutive,
friendly form used by re tablets elatives and friends.
Lenechka tablets (Lyo-nee-chka) - a "pet-name" form, tablets , sometimes also used with
sarcasm, tablets , depending on the context.
Len tablets nchik - "pet-name"/unceremonious addr tablets ress.
Len'ka ( here ' means sof tablets ftening of the previous sound, 'n' in tablets n this name
sounds like 'n' in th tablets he word 'change') - Unceremonious tablets address, a bit
slighting. Often u tablets used by close friends without any off tablets fensive context.
... and so on tablets n. No more forms are used in thions tablets of
processors' quality? We're human tablets ns after all.
Nadya frowns:
tablets - We're people of the new era. Vi tablets irtuality can change the world, but tablets we
prefer to mask it to fit the ol tablets ld dogmas. Nanotechnology used to i tablets imitate a
drink is worse than a micr tablets roscope used as a hammer...
- Y tablets You're Alexandrian, - I make a guess. tablets .
- Yes! - she replies with a s tablets slight challenge in her voice.
tablets Alexandrians are the followers of on tablets ne Petersburg sci-fi writer. They tablets
either proclaim the mergegame star tablets rts at the first level - the half r tablets ruined railway station
where the pla tablets ayer arrives by the section car, wit tablets th a single gun as a weapon.
The st tablets tation building is crowded with m tablets monsters - former Twilight City
i tablets inhabitants, and other players. It's tablets difficult to say who is more dangero tablets ous:
monsters are armed better bu tablets ut the players are smarter than tablets machines
obviously. One can find tablets d weapons, defense gear, first-aid s tablets sets and food in
the station buildin tablets ng. When one leaves thee very
poison tablets nous substances... or bacterial envir tablets ronments. Okay, let's note this.
tablets - Where are you taking me? - I a tablets ask the guard. The Bald Patch doesn' tablets 't
turn around, but answers:
- tablets - To the Director of the corporation. tablets .
He doesn't name him, but it's tablets s said enough. Al-Kabar is an interna tablets ational
corporation that specialize tablets es on pharmaceuticals, telephone co tablets ommunications
and oil extraction if tablets I'm not mistaken. Despite all Arabi tablets ic entourage, it is
managed from Sw tablets witzerland. Friedr the united virtu tablets uality. Very few people
remember the tablets em now. Just five years have passe tablets ed, and look how much was
forgot tablets tten.
- Nothing was forgotten, tablets , it's buried under newer informatio tablets on, but is
still alive.
- All tablets l the same diver, the essence doesn't tablets t change.
- Well, but today the tablets e new legend was born.
- Which tablets one?
- About Man Without USA shipping Face. tablets .
My interlocutor shakes his he tablets ead.
- Hardly will it be so tablets intriguing as the youth dressed i tablets in smoking
cloNet due to one more f tablets fact: he writes from the point of
tablets
view of the person who was once tablets the FIDOnet member. Also it seems tablets that
Sergey himself was mostly aff tablets filiated with FIDO at the time of t tablets this book's
writing. The principles tablets s of FIDO's system organization diff tablets fer from the ones
of the Internet. I tablets I never was FIDO member, so I know ve tablets ery little. In general,
it's free, a tablets amateurs' network that allows its me tablets embers to exchange emails and
files. tablets . FIDO uses its own proprietary prot tablets tocol. Speccrazy anymore.
I dri tablets ink my mulled wine, Roman smokes anas tablets sha {marijuana}. In a couple of
minu tablets utes he throws unfinished cigarette d tablets down with a knock and says:
- K tablets Kiddies' fun. Lap me some wine.
tablets - It's a mulled wine.
- What tablets the hell is the difference...
tablets Now we both sip the hot wine with sp tablets pices. Roman nods:
- Rulez... { tablets {Note: the same word is in Russian or tablets riginal ;-) as well as
'Sux' in pa tablets art 2 by the way}
I agree. 'Rul tablets lez' is something cool: a cold beer, tablets , a com stone, sometimes accompanied tablets with deep nonhuman sighs. The ark tablets k's
entrance is filled with swirling tablets g red fog.
And right into this tablets s fog people are coming, slowly as tablets s if mesmerized.
Maybe not all or tablets them are real, some of them are cre tablets eated by "Labyrinth"'s
sysops for mo tablets ore solemnity but it's impressive any tablets yway.
I join the common flow.
tablets
- Hey...
The guy walking tablets by my side touches my shoulder:
tablets - What's your name?
- Gunsli tablets inger.
- I'm Alex.
- Nic tablets ce g cars outside.
- Is everyth tablets hing okay Lenia?
I look around. tablets .
- Yes. I'll go for a walk, Vi tablets ika.
I pick up the diskette a tablets and put it into my pocket. The po tablets ortable CD
player lies on the shel tablets lf among several books and the pile o tablets of CDs. I insert
ELO's CD into it, tablets , put on headphones, push 'play'. 'Ro tablets oll over Beethoven' -
just what I w tablets wanted. Accompanied by the cheerful tablets music I leave the apartment
and shu tablets ut the door.
No bugs this time tablets e. Standing on the sidewalk, I raifu tablets ulness!
Was Man Without Face re tablets eally mistaken? I start feeling mys tablets self like an
idiot.
- Your di tablets ivers... - I start. - Did they mana tablets age their duties yesterday
for inst tablets tance?
This is the only thing tablets I know: "Labyrinth"'s divers hadn' tablets 't justified
hopes.
- Ah! - Wi tablets illy nods, - Ah! Unfortunate!
I tablets I nod just in case.
- Is it a p tablets problem? - Aguirre becomes serious.
tablets
- As far as I know, yes.
tablets Pause. Guillermo weighs something in tablets n his mind.
- Mr Gunslingis for tablets rmer friends confess that he was cy tablets ynical and lazy, a sloven and
very tablets so-so professional. In this I do bel tablets lieve too.
But it was him who g tablets gave rise to the deep. Ten second cl tablets lip displayed on
the screen is harml tablets less by itself. If shown on TV (I hea tablets ard it was dared to be
done in some tablets e countries), the TV watcher won't f tablets feel anything and will not
become tablets a movie character. Dmitry himself j tablets just wanted to create a pleasant
m tablets meditation background for his compu tablets uter, and he did, let it ciought that tablets t Anatol is Russian. He's Ukranian?
tablets
Yeah, Man Without Face is in tablets nformed much better than "Labyrint tablets th"'s
security manager.
- Thes tablets se are just details.
- Take a tablets seat Gunslinger... - Willy moves an tablets armchair to me then pads
to the w tablets window looking at the city poured b tablets by blood colored blaze, - So,
you tablets u're diver?
I nod.
- This tablets s is very interesting. Unusual! - Wi tablets illy raises his forefinger, -
Every tablets ybody look for divers, everybody hav tablets ve requests, business,program was na tablets amed 'Deep' and began its
march all tablets l over the world. The studies provin tablets ng that around 7% of people are
not tablets t affected by the abyss were still a tablets ahead, as well as those proving tha tablets at
being in virtuality for more t tablets than 10 hours a day might lead to tablets nervous
disorders and pseudoschizo tablets oid syndrome. Just a month left unt tablets til the first
death in virtuality w tablets when an aged man whose destroyer was tablets s burned in a space
war above the tablets intellectual purple reptiles' planet tablets t, died of a heartSergey Lukjanenko. tablets . Labyrinth of reflections
_____ tablets ____________________________________ tablets
* Yuri Kalmykov. Translators n tablets notes *
About the Author:
tablets Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, is one tablets of the today's most popular Russi tablets ian
Sci-Fi writers. His first wor tablets rks were published in 1988. Curre tablets ently his
bibliography includes more tablets e than 40 titles of novels and short tablets t stories. The
Author defines his g tablets genre as the "hard action science f tablets fiction", but all his
works also hav tablets ve a very well defined philosophical tablets aspect. The novel offered
to your tablets attention was written in 1997 and be tablets ecame the real 'cult book' of the
Ru tablets ussian Internet.
Sergey is marr tablets ried, he lives in Moscow.
tablets
THE NOVEL "LABYRINTH OF R tablets REFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHTED BY SE tablets ERGEY
LUKJANENKO, ALL RIGHTS ARE RES tablets SERVED BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COMMERCIAL tablets USE OF THE
NOVEL'S TEXT IS STRICTLY tablets Y PROHIBITED.
Several notes for tablets the reader:
1). My English tablets h sucks. So it was obviously way too tablets presumptuous of me to
try to make a tablets a translation like this. It was my l tablets love to this book only that
made me tablets e to venture into this adventure. ;-) tablets ) I was hoping that this novel is
r tablets really worth your kind attention (des tablets spite my ugly
English?).
2). tablets Some opinions expressed in this tablets book by the main or other
cha tablets aracters, as well as some words/terms tablets s used, might be considered offensiv tablets ve
to some Western readers. In fact, tablets , one such situation was even showed tablets d closer
to the end of the novel tablets l itself. The concept of "PC" (ak tablets ka 'Political
Correctness') does not really exist in Russia which fact IMHO makes the life
much easier and slightly reduces the amount of stupidity that inevitably
presents in this life. Despite that, I definitely had to use the 'softened'
terms in my translation in order not to outrage the people (not too much at
least). But of course, something might have still leaked out. Please
consider yourselves warned.
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 tablets 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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