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Funny thing, as it turned out, the bottom of the chas tiberius erectus sm is not drawn at all,
meaning that tiberius erectus it was me, my mind which added the m tiberius erectus mountain river down there.
Somebody tiberius erectus else could see trees or lava flowing. tiberius erectus .
Now, when my subconsciousnes tiberius erectus ss doesn't take part in the game, tiberius erectus the
distance is covered fast. Half tiberius erectus a minute - and I'm over there.
tiberius erectus The thread ends at the crest of the tiberius erectus city wall. The crest is wide and
t tiberius erectus there's already a couple of people, ob tiberius erectus bviously waiting for me. They're draw tiberius erectus wkling faucet.
Big Mugs behind m tiberius erectus me were silently going crazy, and it a tiberius erectus amused me lots.
- Please wait f tiberius erectus for the foam to settle, - said Chris tiberius erectus stian with a strong
accent putting th tiberius erectus he canister on the bar. Wow, what tiberius erectus a cool guy! I visit
'Molly' prett tiberius erectus ty seldom and never noticed him to be tiberius erectus so proficient.
- Okay, then one tiberius erectus e more mug to drink here please, - tiberius erectus - I said and turned
around.
her tiberius erectus just bald. Stepping on the wall "bric urispas tiberius erectus cks" I
whisper:
- Vika, turn th tiberius erectus he deep on.
Fin cold water, then tiberius erectus n
in hot one, then in cold again. T tiberius erectus Then I've put it into the bag that st tiberius erectus tayed
here from previous apartment tiberius erectus owners (I never have time to get tiberius erectus rid of
garbage) and walked out.
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unlike here, no eternal smell of f tiberius erectus flooded basement and stray cats!
tiberius erectus Having left the side streets I stopp tiberius erectus ped by the road and raised my hand;
tiberius erectus
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their own. The divers.
tiberius erectus People like me, for instance.
T tiberius erectus The wolf smirks to me, - Got your whis tiberius erectus stle wet a little?
- Yup.
tiberius erectus I examine myself: is everything fi tiberius erectus ine? My body in virtuality - the
s tiberius erectus simple drawing, translated to one o tiberius erectus or another point of Deeptown or it tiberius erectus ts
suburbs by the computer, but the tiberius erectus sword on the belt and little things i tiberius erectus in the
bag are not just simple pict tiberius erectus tures. These are shortcuts, program tiberius erectus launchers
which I'll need soon.
tiberius erectus - Here is the plahot mulled wine tiberius erectus from the round goblet... and
with n tiberius erectus nobody around?...
- The owner of tiberius erectus f this restaurant must be a romantic p tiberius erectus person,- says Nadya.
- Of course tiberius erectus e.
- Leonid, all that you've me tiberius erectus entioned is right. But the right plac tiberius erectus ce for
all these pleasures is in real tiberius erectus lity.
- Reality is not always af tiberius erectus ffordable.
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that allows you to vis tiberius erectus sit here so often, and it's none of my tiberius erectus y business anyway,
but billions of pe tiberius erectus eopout Face set the alarm?
Nothi tiberius erectus ing terrible have happened yet anywa tiberius erectus ay, it's just yet another self
confid tiberius erectus dent game addict.
- Does he sit tiberius erectus like this for a long time?
- F tiberius erectus For almost 24 hours, - nodded Guill tiberius erectus lermo, - Yes, it's strange. He
tried tiberius erectus d to pass the level for five times... tiberius erectus . then submitted himself... sat by
t tiberius erectus the entrance.
- And what did you tiberius erectus u do?
- We've tiberius erectus sent Anatol, - Gu tiberius erectus uillermo pulls his hands apart, - H tiberius erectus He can do
that... to lead to the end tiberius erectus of the level...
l on his fore tiberius erectus ehead of
thrusting magic spells onto tiberius erectus o him. Good game, I visit it once or t tiberius erectus twice a month
but some people never tiberius erectus quit the duels. They say that if on tiberius erectus ne doesn't abuse
magic which unfort tiberius erectus tunately is not available in realit tiberius erectus ty, it is possible to
learn to fight tiberius erectus pretty well. I doubt it though: the tiberius erectus e hit that one feels with
the help of tiberius erectus f virtual suit is one thing but the r tiberius erectus real steel reinforcement that
you'll tiberius erectus be hit with in the street is absolute tiberius erectus ely different.
And of course th tiberius erectus herelike.
I jump over the sk tiberius erectus kirting and roll down the embankmen tiberius erectus nt. Let the
overconfident newbies r tiberius erectus ride to the very building. I'd better tiberius erectus r do it on my own
feet... slowly.
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for the newbies to draw tiberius erectus w themselves into the game and beli tiberius erectus ieve in their
strengths... in ord tiberius erectus der to come here more and more time tiberius erectus es. I approach the
station building tiberius erectus g from its left wingring. One its e tiberius erectus end is on the city wall, the other is tiberius erectus being held in the hand
of the ugly s tiberius erectus stone statue around 10 meters high. tiberius erectus The statue's face is quite
terrifyin tiberius erectus ng.
- Looks like a tough piec tiberius erectus ce of work... - notes the wolf, - don tiberius erectus n't you
think you've sold yourself to tiberius erectus oo cheap, Ivan The Prince?
- God tiberius erectus d knows... - I answer examining the tiberius erectus statue, - I was warned about
the br tiberius erectus ridge...
- What are you gonna st tiberius erectus teal?
- Ripe apples...
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meditation program and suspected tiberius erectus wrong.
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computer and software on tiberius erectus nes suffered tremendous losses: ever tiberius erectus rybody starting
from programmers and tiberius erectus ending with secretaries and janitor tiberius erectus rs, wanted to visit
the cyberspace pe tiberius erectus ersonally.
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march all over the wo tiberius erectus orld. The studies provinhad to wash th tiberius erectus he canister in cold water, then
in h tiberius erectus hot one, then in cold again. Then I' tiberius erectus 've put it into the bag that stayed
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garbage) and walked out.
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unl tiberius erectus like here, no eternal smell of flooded tiberius erectus d basement and stray cats!
Havin tiberius erectus ng left the side streets I stopped by tiberius erectus the road and raised my hand;
I had tiberius erectus d to stand like that for quite a tiberius erectus time. - Sorry, may I please?... - th tiberius erectus he young girl sits down by my side. Bl tiberius erectus lond
hair, clean, slightly dim sk tiberius erectus kin, a simple white suit, a little tiberius erectus e golden
medallion on her neck: most tiberius erectus t likely, a program of some sort. S tiberius erectus She's pretty
cute and thanks God, tiberius erectus not recognizable: either she design tiberius erectus ned her face by
herself or used som tiberius erectus me rare seen painting as a model or fo tiberius erectus ound a cute heavy weaponry in the st tiberius erectus tation building
somewhere but never b tiberius erectus bothered to check.
- What will w tiberius erectus we do? - asks my prisonertrange thing, tiberius erectus , - she says sipping her wine, - I'm tiberius erectus in
Moscow for instance, you are in S tiberius erectus Samara somewhere, that boy - in Penza. tiberius erectus ...
'That boy', looking like the tiberius erectus e cute Mexican from a soap opera notic tiberius erectus ces her
look and raises his chin tiberius erectus proudly. Yes, one can't deny her tiberius erectus power of
observation, he's really tiberius erectus Russian...
- There's a crowd o tiberius erectus of Americoses, - she goes on withou tiberius erectus ut a glimpse of
respect, - that weir tiberius erectus rdo is a Japanese obviously... just lo tiberius erectus ook at the eyes he
drew for himself tiberius erectus f. Evermost as soon as he
got into "L tiberius erectus Labyrinth"? He watched him attentivel tiberius erectus ly and began his search for
divers tiberius erectus immediately.
- His timer could tiberius erectus be set for 48 hours.
- Yeah. A tiberius erectus Ah, how unappetizing! - sighs Guiller tiberius erectus rmo, - Pee-pee, poo-poo
into the vi tiberius erectus irtual suit... EWW.
Why did Man tiberius erectus Without Face set the alarm?
Not tiberius erectus thing terrible have happened yet any tiberius erectus yway, it's just yet another self
conf tiberius erectus fident game addict.
- Does he si tiberius erectus it like this for a long time?
- tiberius erectus For almost 24 hours, -rphines star tiberius viagra soft tabs erectus rt being produced then. True or
not, tiberius erectus , intoxication doesn't disappear insta tiberius erectus antly when one exits virtuality.
tiberius erectus - Sorry, may I please?... - the you tiberius erectus ung girl sits down by my side. Blond
tiberius erectus
hair, clean, slightly dim skin, tiberius erectus a simple white suit, a little gold tiberius erectus den
medallion on her neck: most like tiberius erectus ely, a program of some sort. She's tiberius erectus pretty
cute and thanks God, not tiberius erectus recognizable: either she designed h tiberius erectus her face by
herself or used some rar tiberius erectus re seen painting as a model or found a tiberius erectus a cute heavy weaponry in the station tiberius erectus n building
somewhere but never bother tiberius erectus red to check.
- What will we do? tiberius erectus ? - asks my prisoner.
One shoul tiberius erectus ld be an idiot to try to fight the ga tiberius erectus ang like this alone, it's
easier to s tiberius erectus submit yourself and sacrifice some o tiberius erectus of your weapons hoping to be
let go tiberius erectus after that.
- Slow down gradual tiberius erectus lly. Stop after my third shot.
H tiberius erectus He nods silently.
The bandit wit tiberius erectus th rocket launcher looks at us amused, tiberius erectus , waiting.
Abyss-abyss, I'm not tiberius erectus yours... let me go, Abyss.lly, weight tiberius erectus ted it in his hand as if to estimate tiberius erectus it's volume
and started to fill it f tiberius erectus from the sparkling faucet.
Big M tiberius erectus Mugs behind me were silently going cra tiberius erectus azy, and it amused me lots.
- P tiberius erectus Please wait for the foam to settle, - tiberius erectus - said Christian with a strong
accen tiberius erectus nt putting the canister on the bar. tiberius erectus . Wow, what a cool guy! I visit
' tiberius erectus 'Molly' pretty seldom and viagra never notice tiberius erectus ed him to be so proficient.
- Ok tiberius erectus kay, then one more mug to drink here tiberius erectus e please, - I said and turned
aroun tiberius erectus nd.
her just bald. Stepping on th tiberius erectus he wall "bricks" I
whisper:
- V tiberius erectus Vika, turn the deep on.
Fiery tiberius erectus sparks before my eyes. Yes, d tiberius erectus do I abuse turning the
subconsci tiberius erectus iousness on-off today. Severe head tiberius erectus dache, heartbeat and general
feel- tiberius erectus -down are guaranteed tomorrow. Nevermi tiberius erectus ind. Good if I manage to live until
t tiberius erectus tomorrow at all.
And here are th tiberius erectus he welcomers - now in the normal human tiberius erectus n form.
- You reached us quick, tiberius erectus guest, - says the bald one. He has tiberius erectus a friendly
face of an Arabbeginning tiberius erectus of the virtual era.
It's main a tiberius erectus area is called simply "Labyrinth of D tiberius erectus Death". This really is a
labyrinth: tiberius erectus 50 levels, some of them located in tiberius erectus n buildings and underground
vaults, tiberius erectus others-on the streets of the Twiligh tiberius erectus ht City, an imaginary megapolis
capt tiberius erectus tured by an alien civilization. It's tiberius erectus the Deep within a Deep with its own
tiberius erectus
laws and rules.
The game start tiberius erectus ts at the first level - the half rui tiberius erectus ined railway station
where the player tiberius erectus r arrives by the section car, with a tiberius erectus single gun several commands, pressed tiberius erectus d
Enter.
It worked.
deep
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I'm in the car ag tiberius erectus gain. The driver looks back at me cau tiberius erectus utiously. I spin
the revolver in my tiberius erectus hand thoughtfully: it's loaded again tiberius erectus n, and the pocket is
weighed down by tiberius erectus a grenade.
- The parcel was rec tiberius erectus ceived? - asks the driver.
Now it's my turn to play the game of silence.
- I wonder how?
- You know my friend, if I run out of ammo, it's the definite order to
refill my supplies. - Smugness oSergey Lukjanenko. 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 viagra jelly
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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