| us killed successfully... a mulled win singulair ne.
We sit by the ste singulair eep and feel good.
- singulair What was in that apple?
singulair - New cold reliever, a singulair a very effective one.
singulair Roman frowns:
- Thi singulair is costs six grands?
singulair - This costs a hundred.
singulair - Ahhh... - Roman's ja singulair aw drops.
- Let's wai singulair it for the buyer.
The singulair e Werewolf nods:
- It singulair t's your operation, it's yo singulair ou to decide.
The buy singulair yer shows up in some ten m singulair minutes, when I start to wo singulair orry already.
I knew him o singulair only under a nick 'Hars ar singulair re having their fun. With
singulair
irony I watch the persist singulair tent insect - the steady fl singulair low of air blows from the
singulair
apartment pushing the bu singulair ug back out... Finally the singulair e door is closed, the bug
singulair
knocks against it in the singulair last effort, a short fla singulair ash - and it falls on the
singulair
floor.
- Should I f singulair file the complaint to the l singulair landlord? - asks Windows-Ho singulair ome. Now
the voice comes f singulair from silver clips on my shi singulair irt's collar.
- Go ah singulair head - I agree. I always f singulair forget to explain to the p singulair program that
the landlord singulair d any
problems might arise singulair e in "Labyrinth".
I e singulair enter the door and freeze.
singulair
This is beautiful.
singulair
The hall is in the singulair e form of unequal sided singulair triangle, one wall is
singulair
completely transparent and singulair d one can see the city from singulair m the big height, lighted
singulair
by red sunset light. Not singulair Deeptown but Twilight Cit singulair ty most likely. The table
singulair
of "Labyrinth"'s security singulair y manager, Mr Guillermo is singulair s horseshoe-shaped, three
singulair
monitors are installed o singulair on it, a keyboard and no singulair othing else. Mr Guillermo
singulair
himselcker looked like a k singulair kid
playing war game.
singulair - Wow, - I just said.
singulair - Yeah... I was fumbli singulair ing in one guy's comp... ha singulair ardly managed to get my
a singulair ass outta there. - Maniac singulair c was brief, he locked the singulair e door, glanced at the
c singulair canister and asked sympathe singulair etically, - Dire straits ag singulair gain?
- No, not reall singulair ly.
- I have a couple singulair e of bottles of 'Baltic'... singulair .
- I's 'Guinness' singulair here, - I declared proud singulair dly. Maniac looked at the singulair e
canister thoughtfully an singulair nd hurled:
- You perv singulair vert...
t from the spa singulair arkling faucet.
Big M singulair Mugs behind me were silentl singulair ly going crazy, and it amus singulair sed me lots.
- Pleas singulair se wait for the foam to se singulair ettle, - said Christian wi singulair ith a strong
accent puttin singulair ng the canister on the b singulair bar. Wow, what a cool guy singulair y! I visit
'Molly' prett singulair ty seldom and never noticed singulair d him to be so proficient.
singulair
- Okay, then one mo singulair ore mug to drink here ple singulair ease, - I said and turned
singulair
around.
Big Mugs p singulair pretended to study the bott singulair tle rows behind Christian singulair n's back.
Okay. Unto
help singulair p you. When in the streets singulair s ask for advice the people singulair e with an open hand
sign singulair n on the sleeve, they are singulair volunteer helpers, or pol singulair licemen. Have you set
your singulair r timer?
- Yes, sure! singulair ! For two hours!
- V singulair Very good. Spend 15 minutes singulair s to talk to the porter a singulair and you'll save
much more singulair e. Happy sailing!
- H singulair Happy sailing! - says admir singulair red novice behind me. It's singulair so nice to be an
old-time singulair er...
I wink to the singulair e porter and nod towards 'S singulair Stallone' in case he'll be singulair e too
shy to ask for hel singulair think it's
enough said singulair here in singulair order to a).n, t singulair the opposite is true for hu singulair umans.
The 14th leve singulair el is the city's sport cent singulair ter. The computer with the singulair e game
menu was standing singulair g on the judges' table singulair by the huge swimming pool singulair where
corpses of crocodil singulair le-like amphibious monster singulair rs were lazily swaying in singulair clear
water. It's quite d singulair difficult to kill those so singulair o I had to use the plasma g singulair gun to
boil up the water i singulair in the pool. When the wate singulair er cooled down, I dived in singulair n the
stinky broth and singulair wairt
ELO's CD into it singulair t, put on headphones, push singulair 'play'. 'Roll over Beetho singulair oven' -
just what I wanted singulair d. Accompanied by the chee singulair erful music I leave the apa singulair artment
and shut the door. singulair .
No bugs this time. singulair . Standing on the sidewalk singulair k, I raise my hand and stop singulair p
the cab. This time the singulair e driver is an aged man, singulair stout and very intelligent singulair t
looking.
- Deep-Tr singulair ransit is glad to welcome y singulair you Lenia.
I get insi singulair ide and nod:
- To the singulair e 'Three Piglets' restauran singulair nt.
This address is singulair s well knowe explain the si singulair ituation in an orderly fash singulair hion, Willy.
Guillerm singulair mo nods.
- The playe singulair er entered the level 39 h singulair hours ago. He was killed 5 singulair 5 times,
very quickly.
singulair - By the Demon?
- singulair - Oh no... he poof-poofed t singulair the Demon! By other players singulair s. Then he sat down
and is singulair s still sitting. We sent An singulair natol, he drove the Unfortu singulair unate and they were
both singulair killed. Anatol started for singulair r the second time but they singulair y failed again: the
custom singulair mer was killed. Anatol was singulair very angry, he shot dead singulair everybody there,n
virtual singulair lity, the place where one c singulair can just chat.
About singulair anything at all.
I singulair see long rows of buildin singulair ngs, small squares and par singulair rks between them,
either c singulair crowded or empty. I study i singulair intricate plates. Some of t singulair them are obvious,
others a singulair are deliberately vague.
singulair 'Anecdotes'
'Talk singulair ks about nothing'
'Se singulair exual adventures'
'St singulair trange place'
'Oats g singulair growing!'
'Books'
singulair 'Martial arts'
Pe singulair eople come here to discuss singulair the certain topics, this singulair is the echo of
pre - singulair - What are you afraid of, d singulair diver? - there's a curiosit singulair ty in Shellerbach's
gaze.
singulair
What am I afraid of, singulair , hmm?
- I'm afraid singulair of my name being known. singulair The real freedom is in my singulair ystery
always.
- I u singulair understand, - Shellerbach a singulair agrees and looks at Roman singulair askance, - Are
you the di singulair iver too? Or just a walking singulair g virus deposit?
- Di singulair iver, - says Roman.
- singulair - Well... Good luck gentl singulair lemen... - Shellerbach pads singulair s a step away, then
stops, singulair , - Tell me... how is it: t singulair to be a diver?
- It's singulair s vld to communicate, but
singulair
it was nothing more than singulair exchanging character lines singulair s on the screen... in the
singulair
best case - the drawn face singulair e of your interlocutor coul singulair ld be on the screen too.
singulair The real virtuality singulair required too powerful co singulair omputers, extremely high
q singulair quality communication lines singulair s, titanic work of milli singulair ions of programmers. It
w singulair would take several dozens o singulair of years to build the city singulair like Deeptown.
Every singulair ything had changed dramati singulair ically when Dmitry Dibenk singulair ko, the former
hacker fro singulair om Moscowow many servers di singulair id you pass through to come singulair e here?
- Unfortunate singulair ely, I don't remember.
singulair Urman shrugs.
- Ho singulair ow may I refer to you?
singulair - Ivan The Prince.
singulair Brief pause, then he smil singulair les, Somebody have explaine singulair ed him. ventolin
- Oh, the Rus singulair ssian tales' hero! Are you singulair Russian yourself?
- singulair Does it really matter?
singulair - You're absolutely rig singulair ght... Well, Mr Diver, as singulair s far as I understand,
yo singulair ou penetrated our block ill singulair legally...
- Oh reall singulair ly?! - I'm in shock. - To b singulair be honest, I j'll grab som singulair me soda and will be right b singulair back...
- Go ahead, - singulair - agrees the wolf gazing ar singulair round.
I half close m singulair my eyes.
Abyss-abyss, singulair , I'm not yours... let me g singulair go, abyss...
I shiver singulair red slightly and stood up singulair p; tiny screens before my singulair y eyes, the
desert, the c singulair chasm, the statue and the singulair city in the distance is on singulair n them, very
nice drawing. singulair . Al-Kabar has good designe singulair ers.
The virtual helm singulair met is heavy, one of the m singulair most sophisticated models singulair by
Sony: with excellent singulair color screens, greatxample singulair es: Petrovich Alekseevich - singulair - men's
Petro singulair ovna Alekseevna - wo singulair omen's.
Also, the las singulair st names of the Russian or singulair rigin are gender specific t singulair too. To
women's form the e singulair ending -a is usually attac singulair ched: Kalmykov for me b singulair becomes
Kalmykova for my M singulair Mother, as opposed to her m singulair maiden name which is Cella singulair arius -
not originally Rus singulair ssian one and as such not g singulair gender specific.
Ther singulair re's much more about Russ singulair sian 'naming system', but singulair t I think it's
enough s singulair said here in order to a). singulair .n, the opposite is true fo singulair or humans.
The 14th singulair level is the city's sport singulair center. The computer with singulair the game
menu was stan singulair nding on the judges' tab singulair ble by the huge swimming p singulair pool where
corpses of croc singulair codile-like amphibious mon singulair nsters were lazily swaying singulair in clear
water. It's qui singulair ite difficult to kill thos singulair se so I had to use the plas singulair sma gun to
boil up the wat singulair ter in the pool. When the singulair water cooled down, I dive singulair ed in the
stinky broth singulair and waited for the pur singulair rsuers for about 10 minu singulair utes: o the mouse.
D singulair Doomers already were divid singulair ded into 'keyboardists' an singulair nd 'mousists'. The
eterna singulair al argument who is cooler w singulair was never solved: virtualit singulair ty had come.
Now I do singulair ot the "i's".
One of singulair the bandits is still alive singulair e. His foul language is so singulair colorful and
intricate th singulair hat his national origin is singulair obvious. The player's fac singulair ce is covered
with blood, singulair one hand is partially ripp singulair ped off, with the other one singulair e he tries to
reach the f singulair first-aid set. Only 5% of singulair strength had left in him singulair but the setthout translat singulair tion.. We drive along the h singulair highway, I can't resist
an singulair nd shoot one more trailer u singulair using the rocket launcher. singulair Of course I leave the
ca singulair ar firstly... Labyrinth"'s singulair s creators had a good sense singulair e of humor and I don't
wa singulair ant to watch my insides on singulair the car's ceiling at all.
singulair
The second level end singulair ds at the suburbs of zyrtec the Tw singulair wilight City. We leave the
singulair
car together and save o singulair our result using the compu singulair uter which is diligently
singulair
working on the ruins of a singulair a small cottage. Only after singulair r this my fellow t differ singulair from the ones
of the Inte singulair ernet. I never was FIDO mem singulair mber, so I know very little singulair e. In general,
it's free, singulair amateurs' network that al singulair llows its members to exchan singulair nge emails and
files. FIDO singulair O uses its own proprietary singulair protocol. Special gateway singulair ys are used to
exchange e singulair emails with the Internet singulair t. Look at www.fidonet.o singulair org for more
details... singulair But be prepared to get bac singulair ck not the homepage, but so singulair ome HTML code.
{G} The guy singulair ys have forgot to put the { singulair {HTML} tag into the code singulair of their main
page... Ort singulair tal Combat'. They have chan singulair nged dozens of times of
co singulair ourse but these were more c singulair cosmetics than real changes singulair s.
'C&C' is a strateg singulair gic game, it's virtual sp singulair pace is the whole planet. O singulair On
this humble target rang singulair ge those never-to-be Napol singulair leons and Zhukovs eternall singulair ly
fight for the world's singulair dominance commanding nonex singulair xistent armies in imaginar singulair ry
headquarters. Tank tr singulair racks are rattling allegra there a singulair and missiles fly up to th singulair he
skies, new terrible we singulair eapons are being developed, singulair , world's capitals are bein singulair ng
bSergey Lukjanenko. Lab singulair byrinth of reflections
singulair
_________________________ singulair ________________
* Yu singulair uri Kalmykov. Translators n singulair notes *
About the Aut singulair thor:
Sergey Lukja singulair anenko, 30, is one of the today's most popular Russian
Sci-Fi writers. His first works were published in 1988. Currently his
bibliography includes more than 40 titles of novels and short stories. The
Author defines his genre as the "hard action science fiction", but all his
works also have a very well defined philosophical aspect. The novel offered
to your attention was written in 1997 and became the real 'cult book' of the
Russian Internet.
Sergey is married, he lives in Moscow.
THE NOVEL "LABYRINTH OF REFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHTED BY SERGEY
LUKJANENKO, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COMMERCIAL USE OF THE
NOVEL'S TEXT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Several notes for the reader:
1). My English sucks. So it was obviously way too presumptuous of me to
try to make a translation like this. It was my love to this book only that
made me to venture into this adventure. ;-) I was hoping that this novel is
really worth your kind attention (despite my ugly
English?).
2). Some opinions expressed in this book by the main or other
characters, as well as some words/terms used, might be considered offensive
to some Western readers. In fact, one such situation was even showed closer
to the end of the novel itself. The concept of "PC" (aka '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 advair Diskus 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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