| sealed completely and I submit myself. At stop smoking t any rate, no
information stop smoking is unnecessary.
We mo stop smoking ove on, and again I try to stop smoking contact Vika - without any stop smoking y success. My
voice communi stop smoking ication channel is blocked.
stop smoking
Abyss-abyss, I'm not stop smoking yours...
The car's in stop smoking nterior is on the helmet's s stop stop smoking smoking screens. Wow, drawn great: stop smoking this
is well recognizable stop smoking e sporty 'Lancia'.
I l stop smoking laid my hands on the keybo stop smoking oard, typed in several com stop smoking mmands, pressed
Enter.
stop smoking It worked.
deep
stop smoking Enter
I'm in ths stop smoking s are diver's enemy but now stop smoking they spread fear across and stop smoking d this works
to my advantag stop smoking ge.
By the end of the stop smoking 14th level I realize that I stop smoking I can't stand it anymore, I
stop smoking
get out of the deep for a stop smoking a moment and see that it's stop smoking almost 7 am. It's only
ba stop smoking ad for computers to be shut stop smoking down, the opposite is true stop smoking for humans.
The 14th stop smoking h level is the city's sport stop smoking center. The computer with stop smoking the game
menu was standi stop smoking ing on the judges' table stop smoking by the huge swimming pool stop smoking where
corpses of crocodile stop smoking e-like amphibigoes on withou stop smoking ut a glimpse of
respect, - stop smoking that weirdo is a Japanese stop smoking obviously... just look at t stop smoking the eyes he
drew for hims stop smoking self. Every nation has it's stop smoking s own complexes... And here stop smoking e are we,
playing the foo stop smoking ol in nonexistent restaura stop smoking ant, having nonexistent d stop smoking drink,
hundreds of comput stop smoking ters burn up energy, pro stop smoking ocessors heat up in effor stop smoking rt,
megabytes of senseless stop smoking s data are pumped over th stop smoking he phone lines back and
stop smoking
forth...
- Data is n stop smoking never senseless.
- Yes stop smoking s, maybe, - Nadya glances at stop smoking t pay us than relatives of
stop smoking
the player who died of exh stop smoking haustion.
I was look stop smoking king at Unfortunate. He w stop smoking was dressed in regular ma stop smoking asking
overalls, protection stop smoking n mask-helmet and had only stop smoking a gun as a weapon: he eith stop smoking her
entered the 33rd level stop smoking like this or was killed her stop smoking re already. After demise in
stop smoking
"Labyrinth" the player i stop smoking is being restored at the stop smoking beginning of the level
au stop smoking utomatically, with minimum o stop smoking of gear.
- This is rid stop smoking diculous, - I said.
- stop smoking What? - Guillermo is intere stop smoking ested.
- ragment and c stop smoking called Maniac.
I had t stop smoking to wait a couple of minutes stop smoking s until he picked up the ph stop smoking hone. I was
lucky: he easil stop smoking ly could hang about in virt stop smoking tuality, indifferent to any stop smoking y calls,
fires, floods and stop smoking other annoying trifles of l stop smoking life.
- Yes?
- M stop smoking Maniac, it's me.
Hacke stop smoking er's voice softened a little stop smoking e.
- Hi Lenia, what's stop smoking up?
- The new virus f stop smoking for your collection.
- stop smoking - Toss it here! - said Mania stop smoking ac, hanging up instantly.
stop smoking I started the modem and stop smoking d sent Al-Kabar's surprise t stop smoking toescend to the first floor. stop smoking . The lobby is
pretty spaci stop smoking ious, four porters and two g stop smoking guards are always watching t stop smoking there.
- Come to any o stop smoking of them, - I advise, - And a stop smoking ask for consultation: where stop smoking to
go for the start, how t stop smoking to act...
- It's embar stop smoking rrassing...
- It's emb stop smoking barrassing to be a fool. The stop smoking ese guys are here just for t stop smoking that: to
help you. When in stop smoking the streets ask for advice stop smoking e the people with an open stop smoking hand
sign on the sleeve, stop smoking they are volunteer helpers stop smoking s, or policemen. Have you se stop smoking et
your timer?
...
So stop smoking o that's how it goes. Billi stop smoking ionaires are good players. stop smoking Meaning, their
servants - stop smoking - to which number they try t stop smoking to add me.
- Vika, dro stop smoking op the details! - I whisper stop smoking trying to reach the table. stop smoking I wish
the program would u stop smoking understand and obey without stop smoking more questions...
The stop smoking e pavilion changes. Orname stop smoking ents are gone, the flowers stop smoking s lose buds and
some small stop smoking l leafs, the texture of Urm stop smoking man's shirt becomes rough. B stop smoking But I manage
to reach my t stop smoking toys on the table and grab stop smoking b the handkerchief. These stop smoking peu know... Just one questi stop smoking ion.
Sure, any hacker stop smoking r always has just one ques stop smoking stion. They think that it's stop smoking s
possible to ask something stop smoking g after which all divers' my stop smoking ysteries become clear.
stop smoking - Well?
-What does t stop smoking the diver do when he decides stop smoking s to exit virtuality, just t stop smoking thinks
like 'I want to retu stop smoking urn to reality' or what?
stop smoking - I heard that one dive stop smoking er... - I looked aside, stop smoking - Mutters the stupid
rhyme stop smoking e.
- Which one?
stop smoking - Abyss-abyss, I'm not your stop smoking rs.
- And that's it?
stop smoking
- Sometimes long to th stop smoking he
shoulders, low and power stop smoking rful voice.
- Spare ch stop smoking hannel, person number seven, stop smoking , - confirmed Vika.
Th stop smoking he rainbow before my eyes, g stop smoking greedy flaming of the fiery stop smoking wave, the deep.
I'm s stop smoking sitting in the tiny room: t stop smoking the bed, the table with the stop smoking computer on
it, not mine stop smoking but absolutely abstract on stop smoking ne, the door. "Journey Star stop smoking rt" Hotel.
Those Deeptown stop smoking inhabitants who just occasi stop smoking ionally visit the Deep rent stop smoking t rooms
here for cheap.
stop smoking - Is everything okay, Le stop smoking enia?
- Yes.
I stop smoking opeote that there'll be ot stop smoking ther aspirants, - informs Ma stop smoking an Without Face, -
We're l stop smoking looking for divers everywhe stop smoking ere in the deep, and will stop smoking find many, and
will tell t stop smoking them the same I've told you. stop smoking .
- What's there, in " stop smoking "Labyrinth"? - I ask turnin stop smoking ng my gaze away from the
M stop smoking Medal.
- I have no ide stop smoking ea. This is what worries me. stop smoking .
I allow myself to sm stop smoking mirk, tell me that you don't stop smoking t know...
- Until no stop smoking ow everything that was ha stop smoking appening in virtuality had stop smoking their
analogies in the stop smoking e real world. anic and t stop smoking take
the revolver out.
stop smoking Six bullets - six differ stop smoking rent viruses. It's a weak we stop smoking eapon but I rely on
the va stop smoking ariety of loads, maybe the k stop smoking kidnapper's protection won't stop smoking t stand it.
Three bull stop smoking lets just go through him w stop smoking without 'seeing' the target stop smoking t. Good
antivirus, prevent stop smoking ted the detection of its com stop smoking mputer. One bullet flattens stop smoking s and
falls on the floor: t stop smoking the virus is killed. Other t stop smoking two shells wellbutrin SR don't fire at all stop smoking l:
viruses are neutralized stop smoking right in the barrel.
stop smoking That's all.
I hit the stop smoking e driugh the barred windows stop smoking of the Martial Arts club I stop smoking can
see the fragile buil stop smoking lt Eastern looking guy demo stop smoking onstrating some complicated stop smoking d
moves. In the open air ty stop smoking ype cinema called 'Movies' t stop smoking the imposing man gestures
e stop smoking energetically standing befor stop smoking re the screen. I peek inside stop smoking e and hear:
- Cheap st stop smoking tuff! This movie is a disgus stop smoking sting cheap stuff!
Bor stop smoking ring-boring-boring, Ladies a stop smoking and Gentlemen...
Alexa stop smoking andrians are probably right stop smoking t: we have turned the virtua stop smoking al world into
the parody of stop smoking f the real one, butw does it stop smoking t relate to me I wonder?
stop smoking Even if my interlocutor stop smoking has no face I know for sure stop smoking e he's smiling.
- One stop smoking has to lose with honor, Mr stop smoking Diver.
I haven't lost stop smoking t yet, but he doesn't know t stop smoking that.
- Sure, impossi stop smoking ibility of being caught is stop smoking what makes divers what the stop smoking ey
are. - says Man Without stop smoking Face, - What are the progr stop smoking ram obstacles for you? All
stop smoking
you need to do is just to stop smoking o concentrate... and off you stop smoking u are, back home... to
dis stop smoking sconnect manually.
Um- stop smoking -hm. Thanks for the tip. stop smoking It'lh. Love.
Shit, the d stop smoking devil tempted me! I had to stop smoking flee... a couple of lamers stop smoking was on my
tail... So I de stop smoking ecided to visit 'Strawberry stop smoking Fields'...
- What the stop smoking e hell for?
- Don't yo stop smoking ou really know what securit stop smoking ty systems those brothels stop smoking have? -
Maniac was surpris stop smoking sed, - This is where senat stop smoking tors, Duma deputies, busines stop smoking ssmen
... other money sac stop smoking cks always are. Security w stop smoking will cut you off from you stop smoking ur
pursuers at once!
stop smoking I shook my head, didn't kn stop smoking now that. It's a shame to co stop smoking onfess but I never
they cu stop smoking ut off their guaranteed retr stop smoking reat and dive to the very
b stop smoking bottom.
It's the div stop smoking vers who drag them back. stop smoking All big game centers h stop smoking have
communication with s stop smoking somebody of us. The biggest stop smoking t ones even keep anonymous stop smoking s
employees on permanent stop smoking contract. It's cheaper to p stop smoking pay us than relatives of
t stop smoking the player who died of exhau stop smoking ustion.
I was lookin stop smoking ng at Unfortunate. He was stop smoking s dressed in regular mask stop smoking king
overalls, protection m stop smoking mask-helmet and had only a stop smoking gun as a weapon: he either stop smoking r
enteightly and stood up; stop smoking ; tiny screens before my stop smoking eyes, the
desert, the chas stop smoking sm, the statue and the city stop smoking y in the distance is on them stop smoking m, very
nice drawing. Al-Ka stop smoking abar has good designers.
stop smoking The virtual helmet is h stop smoking heavy, one of the most soph stop smoking histicated models by
Sony: stop smoking : with excellent color scree stop smoking ens, great speakers and buil stop smoking lt-in microphone,
with ai stop smoking ir conditioner producing the stop smoking e air of the necessary te stop smoking emperature. Now
it's a dese stop smoking ert heat... I took off the h stop smoking helmet and put it on the ta stop smoking able, by the
keyboar autumn stop smoking n morning, by
the steep riv stop smoking ver bank drinking hot mulled stop smoking d wine from the round gobl stop smoking let... and
with nobody arou stop smoking und?...
- The owner of stop smoking f this restaurant must be a stop smoking romantic person,- says Nady stop smoking ya.
- Of course.
stop smoking - Leonid, all that you've stop smoking e mentioned is right. But t stop smoking the right place for
all the stop smoking ese pleasures is in reality. stop smoking .
- Reality is not alw stop smoking ways affordable.
- Ju stop smoking ust as virtuality is, Lenia. stop smoking . I don't know where you ge stop smoking et money from
that allows y stop smoking you to visit here so often, stop smoking and it'er. This is a scuf stop smoking ffle in virtual space.
One stop smoking might put on one of hundred stop smoking ds of ready-to-use guises or stop smoking r build his own and
to tak stop smoking ke part in a multiple day t stop smoking tournament for the right to stop smoking fight the main
villain th nicotinell stop smoking hat plots to conquer the Ea stop smoking arth. This is the useful g stop smoking game, nowhere
else can one stop smoking e steam out his sick emo stop smoking otions like on the gloomy stop smoking arenas of
'Mortal Combat' stop smoking ', hitting his enemy with stop smoking h the heel on his forehe stop smoking ead of
thrusting magic spe stop smoking ells onto him. Good game, I stop smoking visit it once or twic defin stop smoking nes his genre as the "hard stop smoking action science fiction", b stop smoking but all his
works also have stop smoking e a very well defined philos stop smoking sophical aspect. The novel stop smoking offered
to your attention stop smoking was written in 1997 and bec stop smoking came the real 'cult book' of stop smoking f the
Russian Internet.
stop smoking Sergey is married, he li stop smoking ives in Moscow.
stop smoking
THE NOVEL "LABYRINTH stop smoking H OF REFLECTIONS" IS CO stop smoking OPYRIGHTED BY SERGEY
LUKJ stop smoking JANENKO, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESE stop smoking ERVED BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COM stop smoking MMERCIAL USE OF THE
NOVEL'S stop smoking S TEXT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITE stop smoking ED.
Roman hesita stop smoking ates, but lights the cigarette anyway.
Shit. Nadya's arguments don't seem to me so crazy anymore.
I drink my mulled wine, Roman smokes anasha {marijuana}. In a couple of
minutes he throws unfinished cigarette down with a knock and says:
- Kiddies' fun. Lap me some wine.
- It's a mulled wine.
- What the hell is the difference...
Now we both sip the hot wine with spices. Roman nods:
- Rulez... {Note: the same word is in Russian original Sergey Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of reflections
________________________________________
* 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 zyban 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 zero nicotine 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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