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managed from avandia Switzerland. Friedrich Urma avandia an, it's director is the pe avandia erson
important enough to not avandia t talk with just any visitor.
avandia
The warmest welcome is avandia being glucotrol XL prepared indeed...
avandia We stop before the little w avandia wooden grape twined arbor, I'm avandia m pushed forward
from behind avandia and enter. The guards stay ou avandia utside.
The lodgement lo avandia ooks much more spacious from avandia inside, the huge pavilion,
t avandia the pool in its center where avandia e shining sleepy fish floats s avandia slowly. The table
with tw 20 avandia 0 minutes more, filled with v avandia various checkups, numerous ph avandia hone
calls to the bank's main avandia n office and requests to spec avandia cify the account number,
the avandia bank clerks became kinder an avandia nd finally gave me out $100 avandia 00. In rouble
equivalent of avandia f course.
And in quarter avandia r of an hour more I entered avandia the Irish pub 'Molly' on 36
avandia
Rubinstein Street. It's no avandia ot too crowded in the daytime avandia and this helped me.
The Big avandia g Mugs {security guards ;-) } avandia } by the entrance were relaxe avandia ed and just
froze dumb when t avandia they 'm not mistaken. Despite avandia e all Arabic entourage, it is
avandia
managed from Switzerland. avandia Friedrich Urman, it's dire avandia ector is the person
importan avandia nt enough to not talk with jus avandia st any visitor.
The warm avandia mest welcome is being prepared avandia d indeed...
We stop befo avandia ore the little wooden grape tw avandia wined arbor, I'm pushed forwar avandia rd
from behind and enter. The avandia e guards stay outside.
T avandia The lodgement looks much more avandia spacious from inside, the hu avandia uge pavilion,
the pool in it avandia ts center where shining sleep avandia py fish floarmo, - Yes, it's avandia strange. He
tried to pass th avandia he level for five times... th avandia hen submitted himself... sat avandia by
the entrance.
- And avandia d what did you do?
- We' avandia 've sent Anatol, - Guillermo avandia pulls his hands apart, - H avandia He can do
that... to lead to avandia the end of the level...
avandia - And?...
I have to d avandia drag the information from him avandia with wild horses, not becaus avandia se
Guillermo hides something avandia g from me, he just can't und avandia derstand what exactly
intere avandia ests me, he got used to co avandia ommunicate with weall levels avandia and destroy the Alien Prince avandia in 47 hours
59 minutes! - th avandia he commercial type solemnness avandia starts to sound in Guillermo avandia o's
voice.
Oy-oy-oy.... avandia .
Why am I not a player? avandia ?
- This is big money, avandia , - notes Guillermo for some avandia reason, - Yes? Any
codes t avandia that give nonsusceptibility or avandia r full weaponry and gear to avandia o the player
would be figure avandia ed when one talks about half avandia a million. Any service chann avandia nel
would be found and used avandia d. We would be forced to avandia pay prize amounts too
oands avandia s were badly
bruised.
H avandia He told about what happened an avandia nd of course nobody believed avandia him. Only by
the evening, th avandia hinking about what could happe avandia en, he remembered about Dibenk avandia ko's
meditation program and s avandia suspected wrong.
The wh avandia hole world was in fever a we avandia eek later. All corporations avandia except
computer and software avandia e ones suffered tremendous avandia losses: everybody starting
f avandia from programmers and ending wi avandia ith secretaries and janitors avandia s, wanted to visit
the cybers avandia space personally.
With D avandia Dibere just details.
- avandia Take a seat Gunslinger... - W avandia Willy moves an armchair to me avandia e then pads
to the window l avandia looking at the city poured by avandia y blood colored blaze, - So avandia o,
you're diver?
I nod. avandia .
- This is very intere avandia esting. Unusual! - Willy raise avandia es his forefinger, -
Everybo avandia ody look for divers, everybod avandia dy have requests, business, q avandia questions...
you came to us b avandia by yourself.
I stay sile avandia ent.
Willy turns around avandia and looks at me.
- You avandia have a nice suit Gunslinger, avandia - he says,rk, interrupted on avandia nly twice - to
take an aspiri avandia in tablet and to visit bathr avandia room, I became convinced that avandia I'll
not be able to disable avandia the virus.
It was late avandia evening, the time when hacker avandia rs just start working. I packe avandia ed
the virus with a text frag avandia gment and called Maniac.
avandia I had to wait a couple of m avandia minutes until he picked up th avandia he phone. I was
lucky: he eas avandia sily could hang about in virt avandia tuality, indifferent to any c avandia calls,
fires, floods and othe avandia er annoying trifles of life.
avandia
- Yes?
help of vir avandia rtual suit is one thing but t avandia the real steel reinforcement t avandia that
you'll be hit with in th avandia he street is absolutely differ avandia rent.
And of course the avandia ere's 'Doom', that very game avandia e getting into which had
ush avandia hered the beginning of the vir avandia rtual era.
It's main are avandia ea is called simply "Labyrinth avandia h of Death". This really is a avandia a
labyrinth: 50 levels, so avandia ome of them located in buildi avandia ings and underground
vaults, avandia , others-on the streets of th avandia he Twilight City, an imaginar avandia ry megapolis
captured b up avandia again. It will find me ea avandia asily - movements in
virtual avandia lity leave traces. I just stan avandia nd still and wait.
- Fil avandia le transfer completed.
Y avandia Yes! I won!
- Exit, - I avandia order.
- Really? - asks avandia s Windows-Home.
- Yes.
avandia
- Exit from virtualit avandia ty, - informs the computer. T avandia The colorful sparks
flash bef avandia fore my eyes, the world loses avandia its bright dyes, turns into avandia the pale
and flat picture.
avandia
- You successfully avandia exited virtuality! - c avandia cheerfully informs
Windows- avandia -Houl game, nowhere
else can avandia n one steam out his sick avandia emotions like on the gloomy avandia arenas of
'Mortal Combat', avandia , hitting his enemy with t avandia the heel on his forehead o avandia of
thrusting magic spells ont avandia to him. Good game, I visit it avandia once or twice a month
but s avandia some people never quit the du avandia uels. They say that if one do avandia oesn't abuse
magic which un avandia nfortunately is not available avandia e in reality, it is possible avandia e to
learn to fight pretty we avandia ell. I doubt it though: the avandia hit that one feels with
the avandia help of vy twice - to diabecon
take a avandia an aspirin tablet and to vis avandia sit bathroom, I became convinc avandia ced that I'll
not be able to avandia disable the virus.
It w avandia was late evening, the time whe avandia en hackers just start working. avandia . I packed
the virus with a t avandia text fragment and called Mania avandia ac.
I had to wait a cou avandia uple of minutes until he pick avandia ked up the phone. I was
lucky avandia y: he easily could hang about avandia t in virtuality, indifferent avandia to any calls,
fires, floods avandia and other annoying trifles of avandia f life.
- Yes?
- M avandia Maniac, it's me.
not more th avandia han a square kilometer in
v avandia virtuality. It means nothin avandia ng though. Some glucophage companies, li avandia ike Microsoft for
instance o avandia offer whole palaces for their avandia r employees to work: it's ch avandia heap and
effective. Some oth avandia hers do with such puny little avandia rooms that one can wonder -
avandia
what is virtuality here for avandia at all.
Obviously Al-Ka avandia abar is one of those. I peek avandia into the window of the low
avandia
stone building that we pass b avandia by.
Equipment... too unf avandia familiar one to identify, s avandia several people by avandia the
iac, h avandia hanging up instantly.
I avandia started the modem and sent Al avandia l-Kabar's surprise to greedy h avandia hands of the
virus creator, t avandia then opened the fridge, took o avandia out bread and sausage and mov avandia ved
to the kitchen to set th avandia he teapot on the stove. It'll avandia take Maniac at least
half avandia an hour to examine the virus. avandia . For the first ten minutes he avandia e'll break it,
then for 20 mi avandia inutes more he'll admire its avandia structure, will laugh lookin avandia ng at
unsuccessful solutions avandia and frown finding some ideas avandia he missed himself. Right
sin avandia nc - You won't disappear f avandia from the deep, will you?
avandia - No.
Roman nods with avandia obvious relief, makes a sip a avandia and says:
- You know, it avandia t's interesting to work with y avandia you. You're... unusual.
avandia For one moment it seems to m avandia me that we're approaching th avandia hat impossible
point when div avandia vers open to each other.
avandia - Same here, Roma.
The avandia e Werewolf stands up, sharply avandia and quickly:
- I gotta avandia go, visitors...
He diss avandia solves in the air, the goblet avandia t falls down and rolls away cl avandia linking
just a heap of sensel avandia less symbols and a launching f avandia file.
Maniac nodded.
avandia - I understand. But just t avandia tell me, would you like to cha avandia ange places with
me? What is avandia s more interesting: to create avandia the deep or to rule it?
avandia I'm silent.
- Pour me avandia some beer, - sighed Maniac.
avandia
1000
I was at M avandia Maniac's place until late nig avandia ght, 'Guinness' was followed b avandia by
'Baltic #6', and for the avandia dessert Shurka dug out the Ch avandia hristmas 'Kronenburg'.
Neithe avandia er Irish nor Petersburg nor Fr avandia rench beer faileeen: the woman avandia n's face is floating there, avandia , framed by
orange sparks, th avandia he young and cute face but not avandia thing special. I'm tired of th avandia he
model beauty.
- I do avandia on't know.
- I'd like to avandia o have 10 minutes for self adj avandia justment..
- Okay, but n avandia not more. I'll need all resour avandia rces in 10 minutes.
The avandia face on the screen frowns: th avandia he program extracts the keywor avandia rds.
- Only 10 minutes, avandia , - says Windows-Home obedie avandia ently, - But I must draw
your avandia r attention one more time to t avandia the fact that the levelr
Tequ avandia uila with tomato juice, what f avandia face will he make, huh?
avandia - Lenia?
I turn aroun avandia nd. My Werewolf friend sta avandia ands nearby: a white suit,
avandia
patent-leather shoes, a bit avandia old fashioned tie, the face a avandia a bit strained.
- Hi Rom avandia mka {Roman}. Have a sit.
avandia - Who's the girl?
- No avandia othing interesting.
We d avandia divers are always paranoid sli avandia ightly, it can't be helped.
avandia Too many people want to k avandia know our real names.
The avandia e Werewolf draws in the air no avandia oisily and frowns:
- She avandia eor the second time but they avandia failed again: the
customer w avandia was killed. Anatol was very an avandia ngry, he shot dead everybody avandia there, -
Guillermo laughs l avandia leniently, - Today divers wer avandia re supposed to try together.
avandia
I'll request the report, yes avandia s?
- Yes... - I say not avandia t turning my eyes from the sc avandia creen. A young guy is
there, avandia , dressed in overalls and hol avandia lding a gun. What scared Man W avandia Without Face?
Why does he t avandia think that events don't have a avandia analogies? Why does he offer avandia the
Medal of Complete Licens avandia se for ods to bartender, the avandia en reaches her hand
out to me avandia e, - I'm Nadya.
I shake avandia her hand and introduce myself avandia f:
- Leonid.
So n avandia now we know each other and avandia can be less ceremonious. The avandia e deep is
casual: overly poli avandia ite tone is offensive here.
avandia The girl casts her ha avandia air back from her forehead, avandia the natural and
graceful avandia gesture, then gives her glas avandia ss over to bartender; he ref avandia fills it
quickly. She looks avandia around the hall.
- How avandia do you think, does he really avandia visit virtualiSergey Lukjanen avandia nko. Labyrinth of karela reflections
avandia
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* Yuri avandia i Kalmykov. Translators notes avandia *
About the Author:
avandia
Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, avandia , is one of the today's mos avandia st popular Russian
Sci-Fi wr avandia riters. His first works we avandia ere published in 1988. Curr avandia rently his
bibliography inclu avandia udes more than 40 titles of no avandia ovels and short stories. The avandia e
Author defines his genre as avandia s the "hard action science f avandia fiction", but all his
works a avandia also have a very well defined avandia philosophical aspect. The nov avandia vel offered
to your attentio avandia on was written in 1997 and bec avandia came the real 'cult book' of t avandia the
Russian Internet.
S avandia Sergey is married, he lives in avandia n Moscow.
THE avandia E NOVEL "LABYRINTH OF REF avandia FLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHTED B avandia BY SERGEY
LUKJANENKO, ALL RI avandia IGHTS ARE RESERVED BY THE AUTH avandia HOR. ANY COMMERCIAL USE OF THE avandia E
NOVEL'S TEXT IS STRICTLY PR avandia ROHIBITED.
Several notes avandia for the reader:
1). avandia . My English sucks. So it was avandia 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 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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