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see the real di cialis Soft Tabs iver.
One-zero... not in my favor.
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- Well, for the first time in my l cialis Soft Tabs life I can see the real billionaire.
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Windows-Home whispers,
cialis Soft Tabs - The second router was traced...
cialis Soft Tabs Urman frowns - looks like he's inf cialis Soft Tabs formed about something too. Then
inq cialis Soft Tabs quires:
- Excuse me, how many serve cialis Soft Tabs ers did you pass through to come here?
cialis Soft Tabs - Unfortunately, I don't remember.
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like this. Either the girl or a kid
co cialis Soft Tabs ould be in my body after all.
We ha cialis Soft Tabs ave to spend at least five minutes to ga cialis Soft Tabs ather all the trophies. Now
I'm equippe cialis Soft Tabs ed excellently: guns, the rifle with cialis Soft Tabs an optical sight, the
carbine, the r cialis Soft Tabs rocket launcher, first-aid sets, grenad cialis Soft Tabs des, the armor vest. My
prisoner is equi cialis Soft Tabs ipped no worse, he just doesn't have the cialis Soft Tabs rocket launcher.
It's impossible t cialis Soft Tabs to drag away such a pile of iron in real cialis Soft Tabs lity, but here
we all are Rambos a litt cialis Soft Tabs tle.
- Let's gh to "Labyrinth" at cialis Soft Tabs t once.
- Why would I want to do th cialis Soft Tabs hat?
Man Without Face takes a smal cialis Soft Tabs ll badge from the cloak pocket. It look cialis Soft Tabs ks
pretty like female Viagra the police badge but its cialis Soft Tabs background is white and there's not a
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spiral in the center but a tiny sphere cialis Soft Tabs woven of the thinnest threads.
- T cialis Soft Tabs That's why.
The badge is on the t cialis Soft Tabs table between us. I look at it but don't cialis Soft Tabs dare to
touch.
What if it disapp cialis Soft Tabs pears?
When Lady Winter received cialis Soft Tabs the order from Cardinal Richelieu (SP? cialis Soft Tabs ??ed her face by
herself or used some cialis Soft Tabs rare seen painting as a model or found a cialis Soft Tabs a cute but not
too familiar face in som cialis Soft Tabs me movie.
- Sure, - I turn to he cialis Soft Tabs er. The bartender already gives her a gl cialis Soft Tabs lass of
wine: 'Emperor', the Chilean one cialis Soft Tabs e. This girl has a good taste.
- I cialis Soft Tabs see you here pretty often, - informs the cialis Soft Tabs e girl.
DZZZ! the alarm signal in m cialis Soft Tabs my head.
- Amazing, - I note, - I d cialis Soft Tabs don't visit this place so often really.
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- But I'm here almost always.
cialis Soft Tabs Lies.
I can exespite all Arabic e cialis Soft Tabs entourage, it is
managed from Switzerla cialis Soft Tabs and. Friedrich Urman, it's director cialis Soft Tabs is the person
important enough to not t cialis Soft Tabs talk with just any visitor.
The war cialis Soft Tabs rmest welcome is being prepared indeed... cialis Soft Tabs .
We stop before the little wooden cialis Soft Tabs grape twined arbor, I'm pushed forward
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from behind and enter. The guards stay o cialis Soft Tabs outside.
The lodgement looks much m cialis Soft Tabs more spacious from inside, the huge pavi cialis Soft Tabs ilion,
the pool in its center where sh cialis Soft Tabs hining sleepy fish floats slowly. The ta cialis Soft Tabs ab be caused by Lukjanenko's technical de cialis Soft Tabs etails and
descriptions of the Net due t cialis Soft Tabs to one more fact: he writes from the po cialis Soft Tabs oint of
view of the person who was cialis Soft Tabs once the FIDOnet member. Also it seems cialis Soft Tabs that
Sergey himself was mostly affili cialis Soft Tabs iated with FIDO at the time of this boo cialis Soft Tabs ok's
writing. The principles of FIDO's cialis Soft Tabs system organization differ from the one cialis Soft Tabs es
of the Internet. I never was FIDO mem cialis Soft Tabs mber, so I know very little. In general,
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it's free, amateurs' network that allo cialis Soft Tabs ows its members to excype solemnness star cialis Soft Tabs rts to sound in Guillermo's
voice.
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Why am I not a play cialis Soft Tabs yer?
- This is big money, - notes cialis Soft Tabs s Guillermo for some reason, - Yes? An cialis Soft Tabs ny
codes that give nonsusceptibility or cialis Soft Tabs full weaponry and gear to the player
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would be figured when one talks about cialis Soft Tabs t half a million. Any service channel
w cialis Soft Tabs would be found and used. We would be cialis Soft Tabs forced to pay prize amounts too
oft cialis Soft Tabs ten... or to be exact, never.
- But cialis Soft Tabs t how do your divers work?
- They cialis Soft Tabs y.
Computer industry releases up cialis Soft Tabs to 1000 games every year, both intende cialis Soft Tabs ed
for the Deep and for ordinary users.
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The game usually 'lives' activ cialis Soft Tabs vely for around half a year. It is
d cialis Soft Tabs distributed legally and through the pirat cialis Soft Tabs te channels, is being discussed, all
its cialis Soft Tabs s intended and random tricks are being cialis Soft Tabs g caught. And then it dies... kept
only cialis Soft Tabs by a couple of hundreds of fans.
S cialis Soft Tabs Sometimes exceptions happen - and then th cialis Soft Tabs he game lives for years. Many
new, mu cialis Soft Tabs uch more perfect and sacks always are cialis Soft Tabs e. Security will cut you off from you cialis Soft Tabs ur
pursuers at once!
I shook my he cialis Soft Tabs ead, didn't know that. It's a shame to c cialis Soft Tabs confess but I never
visited those human growth hormone agent 'estab cialis Soft Tabs blishments' before.
- So well... I cialis Soft Tabs decided to wait for half an hour, - wen cialis Soft Tabs nt Maniac on with
his story, - But you w cialis Soft Tabs wouldn't just hang there alone like stupi cialis Soft Tabs id, right? So I
called for one girl... w cialis Soft Tabs we were just sitting, drinking beer... ' cialis Soft Tabs 'Guinness'! -
confessed Maniac in a s cialis Soft Tabs sudden frank manner, - Well, and... s cialis Soft Tabs so, tell me that you cialis Soft Tabs don't know...
cialis Soft Tabs - Until now everything that was hap cialis Soft Tabs ppening in virtuality had their
analogi cialis Soft Tabs ies in the real world. Entertai cialis Soft Tabs inment, business, science,
communica cialis Soft Tabs ations...
Interesting that he ranke cialis Soft Tabs ed entertainment first...
- Now so cialis Soft Tabs omething have changed.... Good luck to y cialis Soft Tabs you diver. You can go
now.
Man W cialis Soft Tabs Without Face nods in the direction of the cialis Soft Tabs e door.
- I'll leave by my own way. cialis Soft Tabs .
- You decided to reveal yourself? cialis Soft Tabs ?
- Sure not.
hysterical, - say cialis Soft Tabs ys Man Without Face, it seems to me that cialis Soft Tabs t
there's a slight
doubt in his voice. cialis Soft Tabs . I throw my revolver at him, it comes th cialis Soft Tabs hrough and falls down under the
wall.
cialis Soft Tabs - Do you want me to calm you down?
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His voice is ice cold and doesn't p cialis Soft Tabs promise anything good.
I sit down o cialis Soft Tabs on the floor, squeeze my head with hands cialis Soft Tabs and whisper:
- Assholes... Fucking cialis Soft Tabs g assholes..
- We don't care about cialis Soft Tabs your pranks in the Deep, diver. The thef cialis Soft Tabs ft is bad,
but it was high time for Urma cialis Soft Tabs an, the 'Money' magazine, a reporte cialis Soft Tabs er.
Windows-Home is silent, it means tha cialis Soft Tabs at the card is 'clean' - it's really just cialis Soft Tabs t
a card, without any hidden surprises. cialis Soft Tabs I put it in my pocket and nod:
- T cialis Soft Tabs Thanks.
Sorry, it'll be no return cialis Soft Tabs n courtesy, but it doesn't look like N cialis Soft Tabs Nadya
expects it.
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Moscow for instance, yo cialis Soft Tabs ou are in Samara somewhere, that boy - in cialis Soft Tabs n Penza...
'That boy', looking like cialis Soft Tabs e the cute Mexican froered on
the first cialis Soft Tabs level already. The glowing paws grab Al cialis Soft Tabs lex by the throat and he
falls down o cialis Soft Tabs on his knees, flutters and shoots over hi cialis Soft Tabs is shoulder. I'm too lazy
to wait for th cialis Soft Tabs he outcome.
I sit into the car. The cialis Soft Tabs e prisoner who submissively waited until cialis Soft Tabs the end
of the talk, starts the car. cialis Soft Tabs He drives slowly, turning around often cialis Soft Tabs n as if
expecting a shot at the back of cialis Soft Tabs his head.
The highway is quite b cialis Soft Tabs busy. Huge trailers try to catch up and cialis Soft Tabs d ram us a
couple of times. I lower t cialis Soft Tabs th Do you want me to calm you down?
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I sit down on th cialis Soft Tabs he floor, squeeze my head with hands and cialis Soft Tabs whisper:
- Assholes... Fucking ass cialis Soft Tabs sholes..
- We don't care about your cialis Soft Tabs r pranks in the Deep, diver. The theft is cialis Soft Tabs s bad,
but it was high time for Urman to cialis Soft Tabs o get knocked on the nose.
I'm whin cialis Soft Tabs ning quietly, rocking from side to side.
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Man Without Face ignores my perfor cialis Soft Tabs rmance.
- The crime always existed, cialis Soft Tabs , it exists now and wie an aspirin tablet cialis Soft Tabs t and to visit bathroom, I became convi cialis Soft Tabs inced that I'll
not be able levitra to disable t cialis Soft Tabs the virus.
It was late evening, the cialis Soft Tabs e time when hackers just start working. I cialis Soft Tabs I packed
the virus with a text fragment cialis Soft penis Extender Standard Tabs and called Maniac.
I had to wait cialis Soft Tabs a couple of minutes until he picked up cialis Soft Tabs the phone. I was
lucky: he easily could cialis Soft Tabs d hang about in virtuality, indifferent cialis Soft Tabs to any calls,
fires, floods and other cialis Soft Tabs annoying trifles of life.
- Yes?
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- Maniac, it's me.
Hacker's v cialis Soft Tabs voeen colors. Pretty nice. Not far away cialis Soft Tabs from us there's a...
well, let's call cialis Soft Tabs l it the "bridge" across the chasm: th cialis Soft Tabs he thread, thin as a
string. One its end cialis Soft Tabs d is on the city wall, the other is being cialis Soft Tabs g held in the hand
of the ugly stone sta cialis Soft Tabs atue around 10 meters high. The statue' cialis Soft Tabs 's face is quite
terrifying.
- Lo cialis Soft Tabs ooks like a tough piece of work... - no cialis Soft Tabs otes the wolf, - don't you
think you've cialis Soft Tabs e sold yourself too cheap, Ivan The Princ cialis Soft Tabs ce?
- God knows... - I answer exam cialis Soft Tabs mining the statue, -born today.
C cialis Soft Tabs Corpses and ruins were left behind my bac cialis Soft Tabs ck. Only on the 6th level I was
delayed cialis Soft Tabs for a while: it's very-very new and un cialis Soft Tabs nwonted. Then I was stuck on
the 12th, cialis Soft Tabs I've encountered similar levels before b cialis Soft Tabs but the arena is always the
arena and cialis Soft Tabs crushing a hundred plus monsters is cialis Soft Tabs not like pushing three
buttons.
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are cr cialis Soft Tabs reeping across "Labyrinth" crossing lev cialis Soft Tabs vels with the ease impossible
even for cialis Soft Tabs r railers try to catch up and ram us a
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couple of times. I lower the window cialis Soft Tabs w and shoot them with rifle aiming at
t cialis Soft Tabs tires and windshield. These are j cialis Soft Tabs just trifles yet, the monsters,
"La cialis Soft Tabs abyrinth"'s creations. It's not them whom cialis Soft Tabs m we should be afraid of.
The man cialis Soft Tabs n in the front shudders when I shoot at cialis Soft Tabs first, then gets used to
it.
The cialis Soft Tabs real enemies wait for us at the roa cialis Soft Tabs ad junction. Three cars are
blocking th cialis Soft Tabs he road, armed people are hiding behind t cialis Soft Tabs them, one stands openl
The same nam cialis Soft Tabs me in Russian usually can have several fo cialis Soft Tabs orms, reflecting the
attitude of the on cialis Soft Tabs ne who pronounces the name to the one nam cialis Soft Tabs med. The number of
these forms is as fa cialis Soft Tabs ar as I can judge, much bigger than in cialis Soft Tabs English. That's
why in my translation cialis Soft Tabs I preferred to retain the original rul cialis Soft Tabs les of forming
such names and to provi cialis Soft Tabs ide this note. Another important reason i cialis Soft Tabs is that the
Russian name changed accor cialis Soft Tabs rding to the rules of doing so in Engl cialis Soft Tabs lish would
sound ridiculous (maybe for m cialis Soft Tabs mecenter of gravity. Just step on the t cialis Soft Tabs thread and everything will be okay...
F cialis Soft Tabs Funny thing, as it turned out, the botto cialis Soft Tabs om of the chasm is not drawn at all,
mea cialis Soft Tabs aning that it was me, my mind which adde cialis Soft Tabs ed the mountain river down there.
Someb cialis Soft Tabs body else could see trees or lava flowing cialis Soft Tabs g.
Now, when my subconsciousness cialis Soft Tabs doesn't take part in the game, the
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distance is covered fast. Half a minute cialis Soft Tabs e - and I'm over there.
The thread cialis Soft Tabs d ends at the crest of the city wall. Th cialis Soft Tabs he crest is wide and
Sergey Lukjanenko. cialis Soft Tabs Labyrinth of reflections
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* Yuri Kalmykov. Translators notes *
About the Author:
Sergey Lukjanenko, 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 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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