| rning... and three times more in the
afternoon. ashwagandha All failed.
- And surely you di ashwagandha idn't know about that? - I can't re ashwagandha esist to be
mordant.
- We don't ashwagandha t fetter our employees' initiative, - a ashwagandha answers Guillermo with
dignity, - The s ashwagandha situation isn't critical yet.
Of ashwagandha course he's right but I get a slight, v ashwagandha vague anxiety. Who is he, the
player go ashwagandha otten into trouble, US President, the Po ashwagandha ope, Dmitry Dibenko?
- Who is he? ashwagandha - I ask aloud. Guillermo shrugs.
ashwagandha - This is unknown.at some persons would ashwagandha d like to obtain some of our technologie ashwagandha es, and
even managed to hire a diver... ashwagandha . in order to reap where they have not s ashwagandha sown.
- The apples, - I add.
atarax ashwagandha - Exactly. We have a good Russian prog ashwagandha grammer working for us, he created
a n ashwagandha nice design for data storage... - Urman ashwagandha claps his hands and the air dims
betw ashwagandha ween us, becoming dense. One moment - an ashwagandha nd the small tree appears, all
sown ashwagandha n with the fruit. - I suppose that the m ashwagandha most interesting thing among these
is t ashwagandha that small ge Irish pub 'Molly' on 36
R ashwagandha Rubinstein Street. It's not too crowde ashwagandha ed in the daytime and this helped me.
T ashwagandha The Big Mugs {security guards ;-) } by ashwagandha y the entrance were relaxed and just
f ashwagandha froze dumb when they saw my canister. I ashwagandha passed the cloak room solemnly and
e ashwagandha entered the neat twilight of semi-baseme ashwagandha ent, approached the bar and smiled to
t ashwagandha the bartender.
Luckily, bartender ashwagandha in 'Molly' is British. Whatever one ashwagandha can say, but
they are far superior th ashwagandha han we are in some aspects. He smiled an ashwagandha nd ga.
Does the security program c ashwagandha consider the existence of divers?
ashwagandha The monster is motionless. I'm dead, ashwagandha long time dead.. I step on the
hair ashwagandha bridge carefully...
- Who are you ashwagandha u?!
Oh my, again... Looks like it ashwagandha reacts to the touch of the bridge. Ev ashwagandha ven
worse.
- The one who is not a ashwagandha at your mercy! - I reply.
- But wh ashwagandha hose mercy you're at?
Something ne ashwagandha ew.
- Allah's, - I answer randomly ashwagandha y.
This time the monster just sla ashwagandha ams me with the free hand, so thare ashwagandha wouldn't be a division into the ashwagandha lucky and the
unfortunate ones whic ashwagandha ch can't be overcome. There wouldn't be ashwagandha that ridiculous
situation: excellent ashwagandha programmers not being able to cross the ashwagandha e border between
reality and illusion, ashwagandha and clumsy guys like myself who don't e ashwagandha even notice this
barrier.
There w ashwagandha wouldn't ever be envy to each other and ashwagandha eternal hunt.
But is it my fault? ashwagandha ? I don't know why it happens myself, ashwagandha , what flaw of
consciousness makes one ashwagandha e a diver, and it is of course rare see ashwagandha en painting as a model or found a cute ashwagandha but not
too familiar face in some movi ashwagandha ie.
- Sure, - I turn to her. Th ashwagandha he bartender already gives her a glass ashwagandha of
wine: 'Emperor', the Chilean one. T ashwagandha This girl has a good taste.
- I se ashwagandha ee you here pretty often, - informs the ashwagandha girl.
DZZZ! the alarm signal in m ashwagandha my head.
- Amazing, - I note, - I ashwagandha don't visit this place so often really. ashwagandha .
- But I'm here almost always.
ashwagandha Lies.
I can exit virtuality r ashwagandha right now and check a cl fix it later.
ashwagandha
Putting the helmet on is the sa ashwagandha ame as to enter the hot oven. Those
ashwagandha
Al-Kabar's fouls surrounded themselv ashwagandha ves with the most uncomfortable
ashwagandha
conditions...
Again I was looking ashwagandha g at the virtual world, but it is yet to ashwagandha oo much like a
cheap cartoon: a grain ashwagandha ny image, a nice but rough drawing. buspar Co ashwagandha omputers can't
handle anything better.
ashwagandha
And that's okay. What is the deep ashwagandha p without the human after all?
I b ashwagandha blinked once, relaxed trying to enter vi ashwagandha irtuality by my of the building, creep ashwagandha p to the
road bending down low and hi ashwagandha iding behind the trees. Not for nothi ashwagandha ing: I'm
being shot at from somewhere l ashwagandha like the higher stories of the buildin ashwagandha ng. They
miss.
Most likely it's a ashwagandha a human, monsters are dumb but keen.
ashwagandha The square is full of slightly dust ashwagandha ty but quite operable cars. Their
ow ashwagandha wners had boarded that train... I'm hi ashwagandha iding behind the boxy and crumpled
Fo ashwagandha ord and wait.
I always wait here.. ashwagandha ..
In around five minutes a hu ashwagandha uman daske the girl guesses my
thou ashwagandha ughts, - while you always wear the same ashwagandha one.
- Changing faces is too ex ashwagandha xpensive, - I begin my self-humiliatio ashwagandha on, -
It's stupid to botch up Schwart ashwagandha tzenegger or Stallone from yourself, an ashwagandha nd I
can't afford hiring the image spe ashwagandha ecialist.
- The Deep itself is exp ashwagandha pensive enough.
She calls virtuali ashwagandha ity with a Russian term and I like that. ashwagandha ...
...But not her overall behavio ashwagandha or...
I shrug. What a strange talk ashwagandha k.
- Excuse me... you're Russian, ashwagandha r suspected.
- Whom, me?
- ashwagandha Sure. Why the hell would the 'newbi ashwagandha ie' need battle viruses and
antidot ashwagandha tes?
I feel a little sad. Somethin ashwagandha ng have changed in our relations, and ashwagandha too
sharply. Maybe it'll pass in some ashwagandha time...
- Shurka, I can't do anyt ashwagandha thing - except to exit virtuality, any ashwagandha program
for me is just a heap of sense ashwagandha eless symbols and a launching file.
ashwagandha Maniac nodded.
- I understand. ashwagandha But just tell me, would you like to cha ashwagandha ange places with
me? What is morred
v ashwagandha virtuality.
I'll leave the trace b ashwagandha but it'll lead to nowhere.
They ca ashwagandha an break my connection at any moment, ashwagandha kick me out of the block,
but this wil ashwagandha ll give them nothing... all thingies-pro ashwagandha ograms that I have will be
invoked imme ashwagandha ediately. A little will remain for e ashwagandha examination. But I'm very
interesting ashwagandha to them, no doubt...
- The first ashwagandha router is traced, - informs Windows-Hom ashwagandha me.
Pretty quick. I shake my head ashwagandha d and at this moment the opposite armcha ashwagandha air
is not empty anymore.
n the garden ashwagandha n
and examine the guard by the entran ashwagandha nce. He's dressed into masking overalls, ashwagandha ,
the standard players' uniform, with ashwagandha h carbine in his hands. His muzzle has ashwagandha s
absolutely 'impenetrable' expression, ashwagandha , he stands motionless like a statue. Is ashwagandha s
he a human or not? It's foolish ashwagandha to ask, at least because one can't ashwagandha t
distinguish well made program from ashwagandha a human at once. I pass the guard and ashwagandha d
find myself in a small hall. The br ashwagandha right sunlight beams through windows, ashwagandha ,
small tables andthe unfamiliar build ashwagandha ding: the gray cube without
windows, w ashwagandha with the only door, very wide like i ashwagandha in the garage and heavily
armored as ashwagandha if in warning - it'll be tough to enter ashwagandha r uninvited. Usually these
buildings h ashwagandha hide either banal consumer goods wareh ashwagandha houses or luxury apartments
inside.
ashwagandha - Let's go? - suggests the driver.
ashwagandha
I keep silence.
The Beard hi ashwagandha its accelerator without a word and the c ashwagandha car jumps directly to
the door. In a mo ashwagandha oment before the impact the door flies o ashwagandha open letting Bartender frowns but mixes ashwagandha s what was requested. Shit, should I ashwagandha order
Tequila with tomato juice, what ashwagandha face will he make, huh?
- Lenia?
ashwagandha
I turn around. My Werewolf f ashwagandha friend stands nearby: a white suit,
ashwagandha
patent-leather shoes, a bit old fashio ashwagandha oned tie, the face a bit strained.
ashwagandha - Hi Romka {Roman}. Have a sit.
ashwagandha - Who's the girl?
- Nothing inter ashwagandha resting.
We divers are always para ashwagandha anoid slightly, it can't be helped.
ashwagandha Too many people want to know our real ashwagandha l namet a nice place.
- Have you b ashwagandha been here before?
- In some sense. ashwagandha .
Interesting.
- What are th ashwagandha hose birds, Roman?
- Harpies, - h ashwagandha he answers without even looking. Whoops! ashwagandha ! and his glass is
empty again but he d ashwagandha doesn't get drunk anyway.
My, how ashwagandha I hate the mystery covering us! We fe ashwagand celexa ha ear each other. We fear
everything.
ashwagandha
- Well, but the weather is nice... ashwagandha . - I toss in randomly.
- Yeah.. s ashwagandha snowy is this summer... - says the Were ashwagandha ewolf and looks at me
with irony. Hve ashwagandha en of the thinnest threads.
- That ashwagandha t's why.
The badge is on the tab ashwagandha ble between us. I look at it but don't d ashwagandha dare to
touch.
What if it disapp ashwagandha pears?
When Lady Winter received ashwagandha d the order from Cardinal Richelieu (S ashwagandha SP???)
saying "Whatever is done by this ashwagandha s person was done for the benefit of Fra ashwagandha ance",
it was a bit less cool.
Th ashwagandha he legendary Complete Licence Medal is ashwagandha before me: the right for just
anythin ashwagandha ng that's possible to do in the deep.
ashwagandha Friedrich Urman would ols are sc ashwagandha ashwagandha cattered on it together with
two mask ashwagandha k helmets and two guns. All our 'fell ashwagandha low travelers' have vanished
somewhere ashwagandha e. We check the chargers and change.
ashwagandha - There'll be a trap by the statio ashwagandha on building, this is obvious... -
mu ashwagandha utters Alex, - We can't relax... Where a ashwagandha are you from, Gunslinger?
- From M ashwagandha Mommy and Daddy.
No more questions ashwagandha s arise. We climb the section car and st ashwagandha tart pumping the
lever. The old rattlet ashwagandha trap accelerates quickly, we move thro ashwagandha ough dissipating
fog.
bright sparks - ashwagandha - it looks beautiful, but I know what i ashwagandha is behind
this beauty.
The Deep. ashwagandha . It is called so in English but it ashwagandha seems to me that the
Russian word { ashwagandha {glubina} sounds better. Having broader ashwagandha r meaning, it changes an
attractive lab ashwagandha bel into the warning: THE Deep! Sharks a ashwagandha and octopuses live here.
It's quiet, an ashwagandha nd presses, presses, presses by the endl ashwagandha less space which doesn't
really exist.
ashwagandha
In general the deep is kind, i ashwagandha in its own way of course. It accepts
cymbalta ashwagandha
everybody. It rout the
small problem ashwagandha m that have arisen recently and about ashwagandha t the fact that divers
cooperating wi ashwagandha ith you had failed to solve it. I'm goi ashwagandha ing to offer my services
in solving thi ashwagandha is problem.
The secretary nods.
ashwagandha - One moment please.
She stan ashwagandha nds up without a hurry and enters one of ashwagandha f the inner doors. I wait
patiently. E ashwagandha Everything is very cute and patriar ashwagandha rchal: no computers, no
monsters. It' ashwagandha 's not the office of the most expensive ashwagandha and dreadful ride in the
history but a ashwagandha a small tonk of sweat, it requires
clea ashwagandha aning for a long time by now... Then ashwagandha I plopped down on the sofa. Good
that ashwagandha t I didn't do the bed yesterday. How far ashwagandha rsighted have I become...
For thre ashwagandha ee years already, I suppose.
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ashwagandha
It was a quarter before one when ashwagandha I woke up. The TV set that turned on
ashwagandha
at 10 was muttering quietly. Unpowered ashwagandha d computer was reproachfully silent on
ashwagandha
the table.
- Oh it feels good... ashwagandha . - I whispered into the ceiling.
ashwagandha I need to change the apartment, to b ashwagandha buySergey Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of refle ashwagandha ections
___________________________ ashwagandha ______________
* Yuri Kalmykov. Tr ashwagandha ranslators notes *
About the Autho ashwagandha or:
Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, is ashwagandha one of the today's most popular Rus ashwagandha ssian
Sci-Fi writers. His first work ashwagandha ks were published in 1988. Currently ashwagandha y his
bibliography includes more than 4 ashwagandha 40 titles of novels and short stories. ashwagandha The
Author defines his genre as the " ashwagandha "hard action science fiction", but all ashwagandha l his
works also have a very well defin ashwagandha ned philosophical aspect. The novel off ashwagandha fered
to your attention was written in ashwagandha 1997 and became the real 'cult book' of ashwagandha f the
Russian Internet.
Sergey is ashwagandha s married, he lives in Moscow.
ashwagandha
THE NOVEL "LABYRINTH OF RE ashwagandha EFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHTED BY SERGEY ashwagandha Y
LUKJANENKO, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED B ashwagandha BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COMMERCIAL USE OF THE ashwagandha E
NOVEL'S TEXT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
ashwagandha
Several notes for the reader:
ashwagandha
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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