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virus, it's a postcard seroquel d.
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commun seroquel nication hardware on the com seroquel mputer, it attaches the seco seroquel ond letter to any
of yours seroquel s: a tiny, invisible one.. seroquel .. a postcard. Without any seroquel text but with
your return seroquel address. The letters leave seroquel e together but later, alread seroquel dy from the
other computer, seroquel , the postcard is forwarde seroquel ed directly to Al-Kabar's s seroquel secussible to pick the stand seroquel dard face
from Windows-Home seroquel e set: it's the hell of thos seroquel se there, while the missing seroquel face
with such unusual
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seroquel
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lab seroquel byrinth. His steps fade slow seroquel wly and I note that the echo seroquel o is excellent here,
maybe seroquel to make it impossible to mo seroquel ove around unnoticed.
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idea wha seroquel at the REAL evacuation is an seroquel nd how do REAL refugees look seroquel k like.
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overconfident newbies seroquel ride to the very building. seroquel I'd better do it on my own seroquel n
feet... slowly.
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for the newbies seroquel to draw themselves into th seroquel he ghe
mouse.
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are the cooles seroquel st one I've ever met!
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to go t seroquel together further, but I d seroquel didn't like that he almost seroquel t crashed into
burning car seroquel rs, so I tell the truth:
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impressions. And seroquel quite well equippe'll never seroquel r get you outta here Ivan! - seroquel - roars the wolf .
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comb's teet seroquel th scatter around, fall on t seroquel the ground and start growi seroquel ing turning
into huge tree seroquel es. Guards' movements betwe seroquel een them become slow as if seroquel f they're
falling asleep - seroquel the space is overfilled wit seroquel th the unexpected objects an seroquel nd the
enemies' computers a seroquel are jammed by the mass of ju seroquel unk data.
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it's too hard to live w seroquel without virtuality if one vi seroquel isited it even just once.
seroquel - I don't think it'll h seroquel happen.
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gesture. There's a ra seroquel ainbow disk on the inside: seroquel : a swirling glowing spiral seroquel l
surrounded by blue.
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rainbow seroquel w badge.
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cops are ass dges.
seroquel
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em seroquel mbankment, onto the pile seroquel of similar looking bodies. seroquel . It was me who was
suppo seroquel osed to end up there accordi seroquel ing to Alex's plan.
- seroquel I was playing 'Deathmatch' seroquel when you even couldn't r seroquel reach up to the
keyboard, seroquel - I friendly say in part seroquel ting. The body will decay seroquel quickly, in
around 6 hou seroquel urs. That's how it is mad seroquel de here, otherwise all "Lab seroquel byrinth"'s
space would be f seroquel filled up with bones.
seroquel The sttting his idea. But seroquel the former wolf
already gr seroquel rabs me by my shoulders and seroquel d throws over the stump sho seroquel outing, - No
time for this seroquel s bull!
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just have time to say: seroquel : "Vika, freeze" to prevent seroquel the careful Windows-Home to seroquel o
resist the change.
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appeared seroquel d and everybody had fun with seroquel h morphing. Luckily, I don't seroquel t have to stand
on all four seroquel rs, I change only violly' p seroquel pretty seldom and never noti seroquel iced him to be so proficient seroquel t.
- Okay, then one m seroquel more mug to drink here ple seroquel ease, - I said and turned
seroquel
around.
Big Mugs pre seroquel etended to study the bottle seroquel rows behind Christian's b seroquel back.
Okay. Until they are seroquel sure in my paying capacity, seroquel , I won't be able to drink m seroquel my
beer in peace.
I d seroquel dragged out a pile of small seroquel notes from the right pocke seroquel et of my jeans
and started seroquel d to examine it. The guards' seroquel ' breathing became faster ag seroquel seroquel gain.
Shit, do I reall seroquel ly look bug
knocks against seroquel t it in the last effort, a seroquel short flash - and it falls seroquel s on the
floor.
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the voice co seroquel omes from silver clips on my seroquel y shirt's collar.
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the landlord seroquel d is myself.
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other apartments seroquel along the way. Nobody lives seroquel s there anyway... but now I seroquel I'm in
hurry. The eleting. seroquel I sit a little aside.
seroquel The guy dressed in jean seroquel ns and snow white shirt cl seroquel limbs on the small
wooden seroquel stage. He's absolutely fe seroquel eatureless. The audience g seroquel glances at him
lazily.
seroquel - Once Shtirlitz have l seroquel left his house... - starts t seroquel the guy.
{ A side not seroquel te. Shtirlitz is the main ch seroquel haracter of very popular Rus seroquel ssian
13 episode 1972 TV seroquel series about the Soviet sp seroquel py in Nazi headquarters. Th seroquel he
story takes place in seroquel February-April 1945. Sht seroquel tirlitz investigates the
seroquel
attemptsg at
tires and seroquel zyban windshield. These are seroquel just trifles yet, the seroquel monsters,
"Labyrinth"'s cr seroquel reations. It's not them whom seroquel m we should be afraid of.
seroquel
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it seroquel t.
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seroquel
blocking the road, armed pe seroquel eople are hiding behind them seroquel m, one stands openly in
a c seroquel casual, self confident pose. seroquel . He has rocket launcher in seroquel his hands.
Shit. I ha seroquel ave heard that there is orde seroquel er
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- Lenia?
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patent-le seroquel eather shoes, a bit old fash seroquel hioned tie, the face a bit s seroquel strained.
- Hi Romka { seroquel {Roman}. Have a sit.
- seroquel - Who's the girl?
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Too many people w seroquel want to know our real names. seroquel .
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ll continents. We seroquel use 4 satellites to synchr seroquel ronize the data
exchange. seroquel . Either Internet user or a seroquel an unorganized one who calle seroquel ed one of 700
company numb seroquel bers can connect to "Labyrin seroquel nth"...
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will be so terribly ex seroquel xpensive that it's useless t seroquel to try to convince Guillermo seroquel o
to do it. - Can you summo seroquel on your divers here?
- seroquel - They are not online now.
seroquel
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I a seroquel agree. I always forget to ex seroquel xplain to the program that seroquel t
the landlord is myself.
seroquel
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oth seroquel her apartments along the way seroquel y. Nobody lives there anywa seroquel ay... but now I'm in
hurry. seroquel . The elevator goes down - seroquel very fast. I pad out into seroquel the street, look
around, m seroquel maybe the insect lover is s seroquel still near? But there's nobo seroquel ody suspicious
nearby, eve seroquel erybody mind their own bu seroquel usiness. The bug was a seroquel passer by
obviously, a seroquel serial wlaces. Okay, star seroquel rt your modem.
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informing that seroquel a postcard is detected e seroquel every minute. The polymorp seroquel ph have
plagued the whole seroquel computer.
It was real seroquel lly close.
Glancing at seroquel t the screen, I've built a seroquel huge sandwich, poured a ho seroquel ot tea
into the cup and ca seroquel ame out to the balcony. It seroquel was already dark outside seroquel and
raining slightly, the seroquel air was damp and cold.
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entered th seroquel he neat twilight of semi-bas seroquel sement, approached the bar a seroquel and smiled to
the bartender seroquel r.
Luckily, bartender seroquel in 'Molly' is British. Wh seroquel hatever one can say, but
seroquel
they are far superior than seroquel we are in some aspects. He seroquel smiled and gazed at me
que seroquel estionably.
- Good a seroquel afternoon, Christian, - I sa seroquel aid. - May I ask for 5 lit seroquel ters of
beer?
He def seroquel finitely wasn't used to sell seroquel l the beer by liters. But seroquel it took him
only five seco seroquel onds to regat across it, the seroquel e
thick and wild forest... seroquel that separates from the fus seroquel ss those who doesn't want
t seroquel to make a show of themselves seroquel s.
- Slow down, - I or seroquel rder when sinequan we pass the mango seroquel growth and approach quite
seroquel
a type of the mid-Russian t seroquel thicket, - Stop by that next seroquel t path.
- It's still a seroquel a long drive to Al-Kabar...
seroquel
- I said - stop!
seroquel The car stops. I open t seroquel the door and make a coupl seroquel le of steps from the
limo. seroquel The driver waits obedien seroquel ntly. I wait too - for t seroquel the break in the
trafficll seroquel l six bullets into the door seroquel r. Six
ricochets. The boxe seroquel es with software on the shel seroquel lves start to blow up and bu seroquel urn.
The sprinkles on the seroquel ceiling come to life with seroquel a hissing sound and viruses seroquel s
get terminated in a secon seroquel nd.
- Stop being hyste seroquel erical, - says Man Without seroquel Face, it seems to me that
seroquel
there's a slight
doubt i seroquel in his voice. I throw my rev seroquel volver at him, it comes thro seroquel ough and falls down under th seroquel he
wall.
- Do you wan seroquel nt me to calm you down?
seroquel His voice is ice cold and seroquel d doesn't pro. Good if I man seroquel nage to live until
tomorrow seroquel w at all.
And here are seroquel e the welcomers - now in the seroquel e normal human form.
- seroquel - You reached us quick, gues seroquel st, - says the bald one. H seroquel He has a friendly
face of a seroquel an Arabic guard from the pro seroquel oduction of "Sindbad The Sai seroquel ilor" done for
kids. The seroquel second one looks grotesqu seroquel uely Arabic too, but is seroquel much more
sinister, he fl seroquel lashes his eyes and holds t seroquel the sword handle tightly. Oh seroquel h great,
the only thing I e seroquel ever missed is the battle vi seroquel irus in my computer.
S seroquel Sergey Lukjanenko. Labyrinth seroquel h of reflections
______ seroquel ____________________________ seroquel ________
* Yuri Kalmyk seroquel kov. Translators notes *
seroquel
About the Author:
seroquel Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, seroquel is one of the today's mo seroquel ost popular Russian
Sci-Fi seroquel i writers. His first work seroquel ks were published in 1988 seroquel 8. Currently his
bibliogra seroquel aphy includes more than 40 t seroquel titles of novels and short seroquel stories. The
Author defin seroquel nes 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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