| to an attempt to read the file. zyprexa . Just as should have
b zyprexa been expected. I copied zyprexa d the file to the magn zyprexa netic diskette, then to zyprexa the
optical one and sta zyprexa arted to disembowel the f zyprexa fruit of Al-Kabar's orcha zyprexa ards.
It turned out zyprexa t to be impossible to ki zyprexa ill the security program zyprexa ms without
destroying t zyprexa the file. I had to just k zyprexa knock them out, disable t zyprexa them. Then I got
busy w zyprexa with the inner surprise. zyprexa . I cut the file into twe zyprexa enty pieces, extracted
zyprexa
the guard program. It t zyprexa turned out to be an abs zyprexa solutely unrap.
Not zyprexa t using the voice contro zyprexa ol anymore, I shut Window zyprexa ws-Home down, entered
3D zyprexa D Norton's table, opened zyprexa d disk D: where all my v zyprexa virtual trophies are stor zyprexa red
together with a sma zyprexa all viruses collection. zyprexa . Here it is, my apple: zyprexa : 1.5 Meg
file. Looks l zyprexa like the simple file fo zyprexa or Advanced-Word. A coup zyprexa ple of smaller
files a zyprexa are attached to it tho zyprexa ough... security program zyprexa ms? I launched the
sc zyprexa canner, especially develo zyprexa oped for these types of s zyprexa surprises.
Yup, jus zyprexa st as I thought: identifi zyprexa ication and
find myself zyprexa f in a small hall. The zyprexa bright sunlight beams zyprexa through windows,
small zyprexa l tables and soft armcha zyprexa airs stand along the wal zyprexa lls. More solid table is
zyprexa
in the center of the ha zyprexa all, a smiling girl sits zyprexa by it: the secretary and zyprexa d most
likely live one.
zyprexa
- Good afternoon, zyprexa - I say.
The secre zyprexa etary's face changes a li zyprexa ittle.
- Good after zyprexa rnoon, - she replies. The zyprexa e voice is soft and nice, zyprexa , looks like
I was switc zyprexa ched to Russian employee. zyprexa .
- I need to meet zyprexa with the management, - I zyprexa I b true of
course, just zyprexa t my subconsciousness not zyprexa tes all follies in men's zyprexa virtual shells -
dispro zyprexa oportionately muscular f zyprexa figures and too recogniza zyprexa able physiognomies of
zyprexa
movie stars glued to bod zyprexa dy-builders' bodies.
zyprexa Exception is buspar made for zyprexa the women though: they a zyprexa all are beautiful.
zyprexa I take a sip of Gin and zyprexa lean on the table relaxe zyprexa ed: oh it feels good...
zyprexa
No real bar or res zyprexa staurant can be compared zyprexa d with the virtual one. zyprexa They
always cook great zyprexa t here. You never have to zyprexa o wait to be served. Tin zyprexa ng system', but I thin zyprexa nk it's
enough said h zyprexa here in order to a). tot zyprexa tally confuse an unaccus zyprexa stomed Western
reader, a zyprexa and b). to explain the zyprexa names in the novel for t zyprexa those who managed to
ove zyprexa ercome the confusion. {G} zyprexa }
And the last thin zyprexa ng:
5). Any feedb zyprexa back will be greatly app zyprexa preciated! Any questions/ zyprexa /opinions
are welcome to zyprexa o mohatu@ameritech.net. H zyprexa Hate mail/flames will be zyprexa ignored. Thank
you!
zyprexa
________________________ zyprexa _________________
zyprexa
"Labyrinth of Re zyprexa eflections" by Sergnot di zyprexa iplomatic notes and threa zyprexa ats exchange like in 'C&C zyprexa C' but
direct communicat zyprexa tion: making unions, con zyprexa nvincing others, some sm zyprexa mall worldly
wisdoms...
zyprexa
But just what so u zyprexa unusual could happen in t zyprexa the "Labyrinth"'s space?
zyprexa
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"Lab zyprexa byrinth"'s administrativ zyprexa ve building is a two zyprexa o story house in
Dee zyprexa eptown's suburbs, faced w zyprexa with rose colored coquina zyprexa a. It looks peacefully an zyprexa nd
neat, more like a res zyprexa sidential building than a zyprexa an office. Maybe American zyprexa n middle
class families zyprexa use to live inore one wh zyprexa hen I woke up. The TV set zyprexa t that turned on
at 10 zyprexa 0 was muttering quietly. zyprexa Unpowered computer was zyprexa reproachfully silent on
zyprexa
the table.
- Oh i zyprexa it feels good... - I whis zyprexa spered into the ceiling.
zyprexa
I need to change zyprexa the apartment, to buy zyprexa the normal one-bedroom i zyprexa in the
downtown, in a go zyprexa ood brick house, with the zyprexa e view to the Neva rive zyprexa er... not in
this prolet zyprexa tarian district, rotten a zyprexa and blown through by all zyprexa winds.
Then we'll zyprexa move Vika into new 'apa zyprexa artments': I'll buy the n zyprexa new 'Septiuchannel is blo zyprexa ocked.
Abyss-abyss, zyprexa , I'm not yours...
zyprexa The car's interior is on zyprexa n the helmet's screens. W zyprexa Wow, drawn great: this
zyprexa
is well recognizable sp zyprexa porty 'Lancia'.
I l zyprexa laid my hands on the ke zyprexa eyboard, typed in severa zyprexa al commands, pressed
En zyprexa nter.
It worked.
zyprexa deep
Enter
zyprexa I'm in the car agai zyprexa in. The driver looks bac zyprexa ck at me cautiously. I sp zyprexa pin
the revolver in my zyprexa hand thoughtfully: it's zyprexa s loaded again, and the p zyprexa pocket is
weighed down b zyprexa by a grenade.
- The zyprexa e parce - Don't flutter, zyprexa , - advises the driver zyprexa watching how I pull t zyprexa the door
locks. Everythi zyprexa ing is sealed completely zyprexa y and I submit myself. At zyprexa t any rate, no
informati zyprexa ion is unnecessary.
zyprexa We move on, and again zyprexa I try to contact Vika - zyprexa without any success. My zyprexa y
voice communication ch zyprexa hannel is blocked.
zyprexa Abyss-abyss, I'm not you zyprexa urs...
The car's in zyprexa nterior is on the helmet' zyprexa 's screens. Wow, drawn g zyprexa great: this
is well rec zyprexa cognizable sporty 'Lancia zyprexa a'.
I laid my hand zyprexa ds on the keyboard, type zyprexa ed ays Vika, - Check the zyprexa wiring.
- Shut dow zyprexa wn.
- Really?
zyprexa - Yes.
The blue b zyprexa background with the white zyprexa e falling figure fills th zyprexa he screen.
- Now it zyprexa t's safe to turn off your zyprexa r computer, - whispers Vi zyprexa ika sleepily.
Good zyprexa night to you, the most zyprexa loyal of my friends... zyprexa I turned the power
swit zyprexa tch and turned off the zyprexa modem. I need a quiet zyprexa night, let all mail wait anti-Depresant / Anti-Anxiety zyprexa t
until the morning. It' zyprexa 's already 3:30 am though zyprexa h... the sky becomes ligh zyprexa hter.
And I want to zyprexa o sleep so much! The herg zyprexa ground
vaults, others-on zyprexa n the streets of the Twi zyprexa ilight City, an imaginar zyprexa ry megapolis
captured b zyprexa by an alien civilization. zyprexa . It's the Deep within a zyprexa Deep with its own
laws zyprexa and rules.
The gam zyprexa me starts at the first zyprexa level - the half ruined zyprexa d railway station
where zyprexa the player arrives by th zyprexa he section zyprexa car, with a s zyprexa single gun as a weapon.
zyprexa
The station building zyprexa is crowded with monste zyprexa ers - former Twilight zyprexa City
inhabitants, and o zyprexa other players. It's diffi zyprexa icult to say who is more zyprexa dangerous:
monsterdinar zyprexa ry person will laugh. But zyprexa t solid people
like li zyprexa ittle-little when they ar zyprexa re laughed at.
- Ca zyprexa an you cut him off manual zyprexa lly?
- How?
H zyprexa How, really? Even if they zyprexa y trace the line using wh zyprexa hich the player entered
zyprexa
the Labyrinth and cut o zyprexa off the atarax connection, nothi zyprexa ing will change. The pe zyprexa erson
would just be hung zyprexa g in the void or the wor zyprexa rld around him would fre zyprexa eeze like a
photograph d zyprexa depending on what his s zyprexa subconsciousness would de zyprexa ecide. It's the
same a zyprexa as to cover the drowning zyprexa person with a puter on a zyprexa and started to pull on th zyprexa he virtual suit.
- zyprexa Good evening Lenia, - sa zyprexa aid Vika.
- Hi old zyprexa girl.
Female face zyprexa is smiling on the screen zyprexa n. No, possibly I'm wrong zyprexa g, I need to
set the dif zyprexa fferent reaction to 'old zyprexa d girl' - slight resentm zyprexa ment, pouting, a
look zyprexa cast slightly aside.
zyprexa - Any mail?
- S zyprexa Seven letters.
- Re zyprexa ead.
There was noth zyprexa hing interesting in the m zyprexa mail: invitations to visi zyprexa it two new
clubs, price zyprexa lists of some small tra zyprexa ading company, the lette zyprexa er from M The Games.
zyprexa The difference is in zyprexa n longevity.
Comput zyprexa ter industry releases up zyprexa to 1000 games every ye zyprexa ear, both intended
for t zyprexa the Deep and for ordinary zyprexa y users.
The game zyprexa usually 'lives' activ zyprexa vely for around half a zyprexa year. It is
distribut zyprexa ted legally and through t zyprexa the pirate channels, is b zyprexa being discussed, all
its zyprexa s intended and random zyprexa tricks are being caught. zyprexa . And then it dies... kep zyprexa pt
only by a couple of h zyprexa hundreds of fans.
S zyprexa Sometimes exceptions happ zyprexa pen - and then the game zyprexa lives the computer is q zyprexa quietly working.
The ga zyprexa ame menu is on the screen zyprexa n. I save my game, refuse zyprexa e an offer to quit and
m zyprexa move further, to the seco zyprexa ond level.
Holding zyprexa the rifle in my hands I zyprexa I run out of the buildin zyprexa ng, creep to the
road b zyprexa bending down low and hid zyprexa ding behind the trees. zyprexa Not for nothing: I'm
b zyprexa being shot at from somewh zyprexa here like the higher sto zyprexa ories of the building. T zyprexa They
miss.
Most li zyprexa ikely it's a human, monst zyprexa ters are dumb but keen.
zyprexa
The square is full zyprexa of slightly dusty but zyprexa qued objects and the
en zyprexa nemies' computers are jam zyprexa mmed by the mass of junk zyprexa data.
Unfortunatel zyprexa ly, this is an old tric zyprexa ck and there's plenty of zyprexa f methods to
fight it. M zyprexa Most guards manage to na zyprexa arrow the field of vision zyprexa n or to drop image
detai zyprexa ils, passing the danger zyprexa rous place successfully. zyprexa To be exact, not the
zyprexa
guards themselves did zyprexa that but their deep-p zyprexa programs. Those stopped zyprexa were
mostly enthusiast zyprexa tic amateurs pursuing us zyprexa just for fun.
- O zyprexa Oh Ivan, my strength is zyprexa s exhausted! - screamsck zyprexa ker always has just one zyprexa e question. They think t zyprexa that it's
possible to as zyprexa sk something after which zyprexa all divers' mysteries be zyprexa ecome clear.
- Well zyprexa l?
-What does the d zyprexa diver do when he decides zyprexa to exit virtuality, just zyprexa t thinks
like 'I want to zyprexa o return to reality' or w zyprexa what?
- I heard th zyprexa hat one diver... - I lo zyprexa ooked aside, - Mutters zyprexa the stupid
rhyme.
zyprexa - Which one?
- Ab zyprexa byss-abyss, I'm not yours zyprexa s.
- And that's it? zyprexa ?
- Sometimes he ad zyprexa dds: "Abyss, let me go."
zyprexa
- And that's, vir zyprexa rtual helmets and suits zyprexa s
already existed, but zyprexa all this was only profa zyprexa anation. Hundreds of game zyprexa es were
created where o zyprexa one could move in the s zyprexa spacious and colorful cyb zyprexa berspace but
virtuality zyprexa y even couldn't be mentio zyprexa oned.
The world cr zyprexa reated by computers is t zyprexa too primitive, it can't b zyprexa be compared
even with zyprexa cartoons, not to menti zyprexa ion movies. Thus, the zyprexa real world is
comple zyprexa etely out of question. On zyprexa ne could run around in th zyprexa he drawn labyrinths and
zyprexa
castles, fight with mo zyprexa onsters or witlimmering zyprexa with
the magic blue li zyprexa ight. Glimmering for me zyprexa only. I approach it, pu zyprexa ut my hand
into the h zyprexa hollow and grab the big zyprexa heavy package. Then I c zyprexa change into white
linen zyprexa shirt and pants, tie a p zyprexa patterned belt around, h zyprexa hang a short sword in a
zyprexa
sheath on it, put seve zyprexa eral little things in p zyprexa pockets. I made this c zyprexa cache
several days ago, zyprexa , illegally using one o zyprexa of the computers belongin zyprexa ng to the
Transcaucasi zyprexa ian Railroad's transport zyprexa tation department. The zyprexa programmers are
weak t zyprexa there, they plus monster zyprexa rs is not like pushing zyprexa three
buttons.
F zyprexa Fortunately other players zyprexa s almost never interfere zyprexa e anymore. The rumors
zyprexa
are creeping across "Lab zyprexa byrinth" crossing level zyprexa ls with the ease imposs zyprexa sible
even for divers. T zyprexa The deep is not an obstac zyprexa cle for rumors, nothing zyprexa could ever
stop them.
zyprexa
Rumors are diver's zyprexa enemy but now they sprea zyprexa ad fear across and this w zyprexa works
to my advantage.
zyprexa
By the end of the 1 zyprexa 14th level I realize that zyprexa t I can't stand it anymor zyprexa re, I
get out of the de zyprexa eep forSergey Lukjanenko. zyprexa . Labyrinth of reflection zyprexa ns
_________________ zyprexa ________________________
zyprexa
* Yuri Kalmykov. T zyprexa Translators notes *
zyprexa
About the Author:
zyprexa Sergey Lukjanenko, zyprexa 30, is one of the toda zyprexa ay's most popular Russi zyprexa ian
Sci-Fi writers. His zyprexa s first works were pu zyprexa ublished in 1988. Curre zyprexa ently his
bibliography i zyprexa includes more than 40 tit zyprexa tles of novels and short zyprexa t stories. The
Author d zyprexa defines his genre as the zyprexa "hard action science f zyprexa fiction", but all his
wo zyprexa orks also have a very wel zyprexa ll defined philosophical zyprexa aspect. The novel offer zyprexa red
to your attention wa zyprexa as 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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