| e, not for the last
one either...
- tramadol She said, it WAS the last time tramadol e, - informed Maniac gloomily. - I tramadol I
haven't visited these brothels tramadol for a year! My suit is even wi tramadol ithout sex
stimulator!
- We tramadol ell, mine's with it, - I said, - I tramadol just never visit these.
- To tramadol oo bad for you. Have your fun while tramadol e young.
In fact, Maniac is tramadol two years younger than me but h tramadol he's a cool hacker
while I'm just tramadol an ordinary 'newbie', and also tramadol he's married, and for the
secon tramadol nd time.
s it my fault? I don tramadol n't know why it happens myself, w tramadol what flaw of
consciousness makes tramadol one a diver, and it is of course tramadol a flaw since we are
such a mino tramadol ority. It'd be stupid not to use th tramadol his ability but too dreadful to
o tramadol offer it for everyone's study.
tramadol That's how it goes: somebody tramadol can do long jumps of eight me tramadol eters,
somebody writes poems, some tramadol ebody is not dependent on virtualit tramadol ty. But why, why
it's so few of u tramadol us, so few that one should count no tramadol ot even in percent but by
person? tramadol ?
d the mouse, launched 'Biocons tramadol structor',
hastily opened the 'C tramadol Clothing' window, then 'Headgear' tramadol ', found something
looking like tramadol beret or cap. Then I filled it wit tramadol th steel gray color and hooked
it tramadol on my figure, person number seven, tramadol , Gunslinger...
deep
En tramadol nter
Beret is on my head. I'm tramadol m not sure whether it's what Mr A tramadol Aguirre wanted
or not but he looks tramadol s satisfied.
- We value the tramadol divers' work. - says Willy. - tramadol - But our permanent
employees q tramadol quite manage it. We need ties to
tramadol
reach the first-aid set. Only 5% tramadol % of strength had left in him but tramadol t the set
would save him.
I tramadol pad closer, he notices me, jerks a tramadol and shouts:
- Who? Who are yo tramadol ou, asshole?!
And another 'mu tramadol ultistory' phrase follows.
- tramadol Gunslinger, - I reply aiming tramadol the rifle barrel at the swearer' tramadol 's
forehead. I don't like when one tramadol e curses like this. Either the gi tramadol irl or a kid
could be in my body a tramadol after all.
We have to spend tramadol at least five minutes to gather al tramadol ll the trophies. Need soon.
- tramadol - Here is the plan, - I decide. tramadol - I'll cross the bridge alone. Th tramadol hen
I'll bring out the trophies an tramadol nd we take to our heels.
- Th tramadol he decision is yours, - agrees the tramadol wolf.
I walk on the sand, th tramadol he hot wind doesn't calm down, it tramadol even seems that
the grains of s tramadol sand sting the eyes. This is not th tramadol he helmet's merit anymore
but my tramadol brain feels what I should have bee tramadol en feeling in the real desert..
tramadol The statue steadily comes clo tramadol oser and becomes more and more rea tramadol al. The
tremendous losses: everyb tramadol body starting
from programmers and tramadol d ending with secretaries and jan tramadol nitors, wanted to visit
the cybers tramadol space personally.
With Dibenk tramadol ko's light touch the program was n tramadol named 'Deep' and began its
march tramadol all over the world. The studies p tramadol proving that around 7% of people a tramadol are
not affected by the abyss wer tramadol re still ahead, as well as those tramadol proving that
being in virtuality tramadol for more than 10 hours a day tramadol might lead to nervous
disorders tramadol and pseudoschizoid syndrome. tramadol all tramadol ly important for all virtual space tramadol e
for any of his actions to be con tramadol nsidered right from now on.
- tramadol - It will wait for you on this tabl tramadol le, - says Man Without Face, - You' tramadol 'll
get it... in case of your succ tramadol cess.
I nod silently.
- tramadol - Note that there'll be other aspi tramadol irants, - informs Man Without Face, tramadol , -
We're looking for divers eve tramadol erywhere in the deep, and will fi tramadol ind many, and
will tell them the s tramadol same I've told you.
- What's tramadol there, in "Labyrinth"? - I ask tu tramadol urning my gaze away f of gravity. tramadol . Just step on the thread and ever tramadol rything will be okay...
Funny th tramadol hing, as it turned out, the bottom tramadol of the chasm is not drawn at all,
tramadol
meaning that it was me, my mind tramadol which added the mountain river do tramadol own there.
Somebody else could see tramadol e trees or lava flowing.
Now, tramadol , when my subconsciousness doesn' tramadol 't take part in the game, the
tramadol
distance is covered fast. Half a tramadol minute - and I'm over there.
tramadol The thread ends at the crest of tramadol the city wall. The crest is wide tramadol e and
therethe man before me is n tramadol not the one it's worthy to
bluff tramadol with.
- Very little. I was tramadol s informed that there's a problem tramadol in "Labyrinth",
that your divers tramadol failed to solve it. I was asked t tramadol to render an assistance to
you.
tramadol A pause again. I'm anonymous tramadol and it's risky to let me into unp tramadol pleasant
sides of the Company's li tramadol ife but Guillermo has a 'good nose' tramadol ' for troubles and
methods of over tramadol rcoming them.
- You'll si tramadol ign a single-time contract? - his tramadol tone becomes quick and
business tramadol s-To capture the Lost Point?
tramadol Man Without Face laughs softly.
tramadol - This is just a fable... tha tramadol at was born in the junction of tim tramadol mes when
Internet and Fidonet tu tramadol urned into the united virtuality tramadol y. Very few people
remember them n tramadol now. Just five years have passed tramadol d, and look how much was
forgo tramadol otten.
- Nothing was forgott tramadol ten, it's buried under newer infor tramadol rmation, but is
still alive.
tramadol - All the same diver, the essenc tramadol ce doesn't change.
- Well, bu tramadol ut today the new legend wa
- tramadol It's a mulled wine.
- What t tramadol the hell is the difference...
tramadol Now we both sip the hot wine with tramadol h spices. Roman nods:
- Rulez tramadol z... {Note: the same word is in Rus tramadol ssian original ;-) as well as
'S tramadol Sux' in part 2 by the way}
I tramadol agree. 'Rulez' is something cool: tramadol a cold beer, a computer of sevent tramadol th
generation, a beautiful girl, a tramadol a virus killed successfully... a mu tramadol ulled wine.
We sit by the ste tramadol eep and feel good.
- What was tramadol s in that apple?
- New cold r tramadol reliever, a veryy business anyway,
tramadol
but billions of people never were tramadol e tramsdol in the deep.
- Millions of tramadol people never saw a TV set.
- tramadol - Virtuality must NOT be an artific tramadol cial substitution of reality, - sa tramadol ays
Nadya with conviction.
- tramadol - Yes, sure. Let's turn the paupers tramadol s and miserable ones into informati tramadol ion
storage, let's become impulses tramadol s in the electronic network...
tramadol - Leonid, you know the teaching tramadol of Alexandrians through hearsay on tramadol nly. -
says Nadya with conviction, tramadol , - Come visit our Church some time tramadol e.
- One just needs to know t tramadol that
everything around is just a g tramadol game, a fantasy.
Shellerbach tramadol nods and pulls his hands apart:
tramadol - I can't, alas...
He w tramadol walks away along the path, we wat tramadol tch him leaving. Then I fill our
tramadol
goblets:
- For the luck!
tramadol Roman obviously haven't yet tramadol understood the scale of what hav tramadol ve just
happened, he silently look tramadol ks at the goblet in his hand:
tramadol - Tell me Lenia, are you happy?
tramadol
- Sure.
- Big money... tramadol - he examines the check, then one, tramadol , then in cold again. Then I've pu tramadol ut it into the bag that stayed
he tramadol ere from previous apartment owne tramadol ers (I never have time to get r tramadol rid of
garbage) and walked out.
tramadol
My, how much cleaner and n tramadol neater my staircase in virtuality tramadol is! And
unlike here, no eternal tramadol smell of flooded basement and stra tramadol ay cats!
Having left the side tramadol e streets I stopped by the road an tramadol nd raised my hand;
I had to stan tramadol nd like that for quite a time. tramadol Finally one junky 'Lada'
conde tramadol escended to stop.
art pumping the tramadol e
lever. The old rattletrap accele tramadol erates quickly, we move through d tramadol dissipating
fog.
- Gunslinge tramadol er, do you like [Stephen] King or w tramadol what?
- Why?
- Well, yo tramadol our nick... or you just shoot well? tramadol ?
- You'll see.
We leav tramadol ve the fog. The rails are going al tramadol long crumbling embankment, the
st tramadol tation building is ahead burned tramadol like the Reichstag building aft tramadol ter the
storm. The likeness is imp tramadol proved by the red flag on the dome tramadol e. Either it's an
entourage detail tramadol l (some Wt's always nice when the tramadol program looks more humanized
than tramadol n it really is.
- Terminal.
tramadol
The blue changed into the ter tramadol rminal's panel. I manually connecte tramadol ed to the
sixth router, the last tramadol one to remain intact and canceled tramadol d my access. Then I
canceled my te tramadol emporary address in Austria.
tramadol The main threads are broken. Try tramadol to find me now Al-Kabar guys, fil tramadol lter
all files in search for Ivan tramadol n The Prince. The diver have broke tramadol free from the
trap.
Not usi tramadol ing the voice control anymore, I tramadol city poured by blood colored bl tramadol laze, - So,
you're diver?
I tramadol nod.
- This is tramadol prescription very interes tramadol sting. Unusual! - Willy raises his tramadol forefinger, -
Everybody look for tramadol r divers, everybody have requests, tramadol , business, questions...
you came tramadol e to us by yourself.
I stay s tramadol silent.
Willy turns around an tramadol nd looks at me.
- You have a tramadol nice suit Gunslinger, - he says, - tramadol - It'd be good to add...
a small tramadol cap to it. A small gray cap.
tramadol I see. A simple test.
- Vik tramadol ka...
Willie smileponds with tramadol pain - I don't care. I storm betwe tramadol een the spears,
fall on the floor. tramadol . The shiny band flows along the st tramadol treet crashing everything
on its tramadol way. The buildings crumble, the tramadol wall blows up with a thunder-like tramadol e
sound. The band flies across the tramadol e chasm. Now full speed forward!
tramadol Those two guards run to inte tramadol ercept me, both with swords, bu tramadol ut I've
unsheathed my own already tramadol y. Whose virus is faster and more a tramadol agile?
Mine.
This is t tramadol the gift from Maniac, my friend a tramadol computer virune can find weapons, tramadol , defense gear, first-aid sets and tramadol d food in
the station building. Wh tramadol hen one leaves the first level, he tramadol gets to the second
one: the highw tramadol way full of abandoned cars... and tramadol d of course, of other players
and tramadol monsters. In order to win one mu tramadol ust reach the 50th level, the anc tramadol cient
cathedral in the downtown a tramadol and to destroy the alien ruler. It' tramadol 's very hard. I
did it before but tramadol since then "Labyrinth" have chang tramadol ged at least ten times:
new buil tramadol ldings, weapons and monsters were tramadol e adhave asked for this, - I say t tramadol trying not to panic and take
the r tramadol revolver out.
Six bullets - s tramadol six different viruses. It's a weak tramadol k weapon but I rely on
the variet tramadol ty of loads, maybe the kidnapper's tramadol protection won't stand it.
T tramadol Three bullets just go through him tramadol m without 'seeing' the target. Go tramadol ood
antivirus, prevented the detec tramadol ction of its computer. One bullet tramadol flattens and
falls on the floor: tramadol the virus is killed. Other two she tramadol ells don't fire at all:
viruses ar tramadol re neutralized right in the Sergey tramadol Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of reflectio tramadol ons
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* Yuri Kalmyk tramadol kov. Translators notes *
Abou tramadol ut the Author:
Sergey Lukj tramadol janenko, 30, is one of the today tramadol y's most popular Russian
Sci-Fi tramadol writers. His first works were tramadol published in 1988. Currently hi tramadol is
bibliography includes more than tramadol n 40 titles of novels and short st tramadol tories. The
Author defines his ge tramadol enre as the "hard action science tramadol fiction", but all his
works also tramadol have a very well defined philosoph tramadol hical aspect. The novel offered
t tramadol to your attention was written in 19 tramadol 997 and became the real 'cult book' tramadol ' of the
Russian Internet.
S tramadol Sergey is married, he lives in Mosc tramadol cow.
THE NOVEL " tramadol "LABYRINTH OF REFLECTIONS" IS tramadol COPYRIGHTED BY SERGEY
LUKJANENK tramadol KO, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED BY THE tramadol AUTHOR. ANY COMMERCIAL USE OF THE
tramadol
NOVEL'S TEXT IS STRICTLY PROHIBIT tramadol TED.
Several notes for the rea tramadol ader:
1). My English suck tramadol ks. So it was obviously way too pre tramadol esumptuous of me to
try to make a tramadol translation like this. It was my tramadol love to this book only that
made tramadol e me to venture into this adventure tramadol e. ;-) I was hoping that this nove tramadol el is
really worth your kind atten tramadol ntion (despite my ugly
English?). tramadol .
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, valium online 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 ttramadol 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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