| waits obediently. I wait to lisinopril lanoxin oo - for the break lanoxin k in the
traffic. lanoxin Why would we want w lanoxin witnesses? Ah, final lanoxin lly...
I aim t lanoxin to the car and shoot lanoxin t. The revolver is n lanoxin not very loud, the k lanoxin kick is
slight, bu lanoxin ut the car takes fir lanoxin re in an instant. Th lanoxin he driver sits insid lanoxin de looking
forward. lanoxin . Several seconds, a lanoxin and Deep-Transit has lanoxin s one cab less.
lanoxin Good. Let everyt lanoxin thing look like drun lanoxin nk punks having fun. lanoxin ... I enter the
f lanoxin forest.
- Not lanoxin ethical... - mumble lanoxin es Windows-Home from lanoxin m the clips.
- lanoxin - Have you optimthin lanoxin nk that it's
possib lanoxin ble to ask something lanoxin g after which all di lanoxin ivers' mysteries bec lanoxin come clear.
- lanoxin Well?
-What d lanoxin does the diver do wh lanoxin hen he decides to ex lanoxin xit virtuality, just lanoxin t thinks
like 'I wa lasix lanoxin ant to return to rea lanoxin ality' or what?
lanoxin - I heard that o lanoxin one diver... - I l lanoxin looked aside, - Mu lanoxin utters the stupid
r lanoxin rhyme.
- Which lanoxin h one?
- Abyss lanoxin s-abyss, I'm not you lanoxin urs.
- And tha lanoxin at's it?
- Som lanoxin metimes he adds: "Ab lanoxin byss, let me go."
lanoxin - And that's it lanoxin t? - asked Maniac do lanoxin olefully.
- Ye lanoxin es.nder frowns but lanoxin mixes what was requ lanoxin uested. Shit, shoul lanoxin ld I order
Tequil lanoxin la with tomato juice lanoxin e, what face will he lanoxin e make, huh?
- lanoxin - Lenia?
I tu lanoxin urn around. My We lanoxin erewolf friend sta lanoxin ands nearby: a whi lanoxin ite suit,
patent-l lanoxin leather shoes, a bit lanoxin t old fashioned tie, lanoxin , the face a bit str lanoxin rained.
- Hi R lanoxin Romka {Roman}. Have lanoxin a sit.
- Who' lanoxin 's the girl?
- lanoxin - Nothing interestin lanoxin ng.
We divers lanoxin are always paranoid lanoxin d slightly, it can't lanoxin t be helped.
T lanoxin Too many people want lanoxin t to know our real n lanoxin names.
e stump sh lanoxin houting, - No
time lanoxin e for this bull!
lanoxin It's a small ple lanoxin easure to be affecte lanoxin ed by the foreign mo lanoxin orphing program. I
lanoxin
just have time to s lanoxin say: "Vika, freeze" lanoxin to prevent the care lanoxin eful Windows-Home to lanoxin o
resist the change lanoxin e.
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appeared and e lanoxin everybody had fun wi lanoxin ith morphing. Luckil lanoxin ly, I don't have to lanoxin stand
on all fours lanoxin s, I change only vi lanoxin isually. I take off lanoxin the sword, give it lanoxin t to the
new Ivan T lanoxin The Prince, he grabs lanoxin s the weapon any
un lanoxin nder it - the comm c lanoxin channel being tight lanoxin tened. This is how lanoxin the beauty of the
lanoxin
most intense virt lanoxin tual fights looks l lanoxin like in reality. St lanoxin tripes, characters, lanoxin ,
digits. The battl lanoxin le of the programs, lanoxin modems, bytes of da lanoxin ata.
Hell no! lanoxin It's too disgusting lanoxin g and dull.
- lanoxin Deep! - I ordered.
lanoxin
The head resp lanoxin ponds with pain - I lanoxin don't care. I storm lanoxin m between the spears lanoxin s,
fall on the floo lanoxin or. The shiny band f lanoxin flows along the stre lanoxin eet crashing everyth lanoxin hing
on its way. lanoxin The buildings crumb lanoxin ble, the wall blow lanoxin wsorld was nothing m lanoxin more but the
sci-fi lanoxin i writers' creatio lanoxin on. Computer networ lanoxin rks, virtual helme lanoxin ets and suits
alre lanoxin eady existed, but a lanoxin all this was only p lanoxin profanation. Hundred lanoxin ds of games were
cr lanoxin reated where one co lanoxin ould move in the s lanoxin spacious and colorfu lanoxin ul cyberspace but
lanoxin
virtuality even cou lanoxin uldn't be mentioned. lanoxin .
The world c lanoxin created by computer lanoxin rs is too primitive, lanoxin , it can't be compar lanoxin red
even with car lanoxin rtoons, not to men lanoxin ntion movies. Thus lanoxin s, the real world lanoxin d is
completely ou lanoxin ut of question. One lanoxin could rs probably c lanoxin capable of tracing lanoxin the
telephone line lanoxin e?
Geez, just lanoxin t why did I connect lanoxin t from the main addr lanoxin ress today, now it's lanoxin s an
amateur's task lanoxin k to determine my pe lanoxin ersonality!
- lanoxin What do you want?
lanoxin
The driver ig lanoxin gnores me, but watc lanoxin ches nevertheless, lanoxin examining me with lanoxin h
curiosity of the lanoxin hunter who managed lanoxin to shoot the firebi lanoxin ird.
- Okay, lanoxin you have asked for lanoxin this, - I say tryi lanoxin ing not to panic and lanoxin d take
the revolver lanoxin r out.
Six bul lanoxin llets - six differe lanoxin ent viruses. It's a lanoxin weak weapon from lanoxin me, he just can't lanoxin understand what e lanoxin exactly
interests lanoxin me, he got used t lanoxin to communicate wit lanoxin th well prepared div lanoxin vers that
understan lanoxin nd everything on the lanoxin e fly.
- Pleas lanoxin se explain the situa lanoxin ation in an orderly lanoxin fashion, Willy.
lanoxin Guillermo nods.
lanoxin
- The player lanoxin r entered the leve lanoxin el 39 hours ago. He lanoxin was killed 5 times lanoxin s,
very quickly.
lanoxin - By the Demon? lanoxin ?
- Oh no... h lanoxin he poof-poofed the D lanoxin Demon! By other play lanoxin yers. Then he sat do lanoxin own
and is still si lanoxin itting. We sent Anat lanoxin tol, he drove the Un lanoxin nand it checks your lanoxin r machine. Note tha lanoxin at it'll work for
lanoxin
long, this is not lanoxin a commercial produc lanoxin ct, just ... my pers lanoxin sonal insurance from lanoxin m
my own virus.
lanoxin - Thanks.
lanoxin - Um-hm.. Lenia, yo lanoxin ou've nearly got int lanoxin to really big troubl lanoxin le.
- Too many lanoxin y hackers were bred lanoxin d, - I growled out, lanoxin - Shit, why haven't lanoxin t you
ever tell me lanoxin about this thing?
lanoxin
- But how co lanoxin ould I know you ar lanoxin re so deep in com lanoxin mputer burglary? - lanoxin -
reasonably objec lanoxin cted Maniac, - Nex lanoxin xt time let me know lanoxin when you are about lanoxin to
br3rd level?
lanoxin - From 25 hours lanoxin s to infinity.
lanoxin What was Man With lanoxin hout Face counting o lanoxin on anyway? If "Laby lanoxin yrinth"'s divers
fa lanoxin ail to get Unfortuna lanoxin ate out in 24 hours lanoxin it means it's impos lanoxin ssible at all...
lanoxin Guillermo is sil lanoxin lent watching me.
lanoxin - Can I get lev lanoxin vel maps at least? - lanoxin - I ask, - Complete lanoxin ones?
- No. lanoxin There's no comple lanoxin ete maps in existe lanoxin ence. "Labyrinth" lanoxin changes
constantly lanoxin y and on its own. lanoxin . This is not a mo lanoxin ovie, not a book a lanoxin after all
Gunsling lanoxin ger. This is the who lanoxin ole world, thed out lanoxin that my head is ach lanoxin hing badly. Must be lanoxin the beer...
I lanoxin I took off the helm lanoxin met, grabbed the mo lanoxin ouse, launched 'Bio lanoxin oconstructor',
hast lanoxin tily opened the 'C lanoxin Clothing' window, t lanoxin then 'Headgear', f lanoxin found something
lo lanoxin ooking like beret or lanoxin r cap. Then I filled lanoxin d it with steel gray lanoxin y color and hooked
lanoxin
it on my figure, pe lanoxin erson number seven, lanoxin Gunslinger...
lanoxin deep
Enter
lanoxin
Beret is on my lanoxin y head. I'm not sur lanoxin re whether it's what lanoxin t Mr Aguirre wanted lanoxin d
or not but he loo lanoxin oks satisfied.
lanoxin - We value the lanoxin direction of the do lanoxin oor.
- I'll le lanoxin eave by my own way.
lanoxin
- You decided lanoxin d to reveal yourself lanoxin f?
- Sure not. lanoxin .
At parting, lanoxin I look in the foggy lanoxin y oval of his face.
lanoxin
Abyss-abyss, lanoxin I'm not yours...
lanoxin I took off the lanoxin helmet and stretch lanoxin hed my hand to the m lanoxin modem hesitatingly,
lanoxin
then pulled the ph lanoxin hone wire from the j lanoxin jack.
- The li lanoxin ine is broke! - info lanoxin orms Vika
- I lanoxin know, girl.
T lanoxin That's it, mysteriou lanoxin us anonymous. It's t lanoxin that simple. Not a lanoxin standard exit
whic lanoxin ch is possible to tr lanoxin race b slightly, it lanoxin can't be helped.
lanoxin Too many people lanoxin e want to know our r lanoxin real names.
Th lanoxin he Werewolf draws in lanoxin n the air noisily an lanoxin nd frowns:
- S lanoxin She tried to mark yo lanoxin ou!
- I know. lanoxin Don't worry, she's lanoxin just a journalist.
lanoxin
Romka sits a lanoxin and nods to the bart lanoxin tender who makes te lanoxin erribly ugly face bu lanoxin ut
gives him a full lanoxin l big glass of Absol lanoxin lut-Pepper. It makes lanoxin s me sick to even wa lanoxin atch
Roman drinking lanoxin g. But he just
mak lanoxin kes a wry face, wipe lanoxin es his lips and retu lanoxin urns the glass. Mayb lanoxin be he's alcoholic in lanoxin n reality?
he might lanoxin ty warrior?
Th lanoxin he dragon flies af lanoxin fter us - the batt lanoxin tle interceptor pr lanoxin rogram of the
highe lanoxin est grade. The drago lanoxin on has three heads lanoxin - obviously three h lanoxin human operators
plu lanoxin us the usual weapo lanoxin onry: claws, teeth lanoxin and flame. A hun lanoxin ndred of various
v lanoxin viruses and tough pr lanoxin rotection. It slows lanoxin down just a little lanoxin above the lake.
lanoxin - The third was lanoxin used the first, - I lanoxin I confess.
- C lanoxin Couldn't you take mo lanoxin ore?! Play fairy tal lanoxin les too much, just t lanoxin three items
and th lanoxin hat's it? - growls t lanoxin the wolf. He isn't
c lanoxin cheap cartoon: a g lanoxin grainy image, a nice lanoxin e but rough drawin lanoxin ng. Computers can't
lanoxin
handle anything be lanoxin etter.
And tha lanoxin at's okay. What is t lanoxin the deep without the lanoxin e human after all?
lanoxin
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of course. I'm no lanoxin ot in the desert, I' lanoxin 'm at home, by the lanoxin e keyboard. I had lanoxin to
type the comman lanoxin nd:
deep
lanoxin [Enter]
The lanoxin multicolor whirlw lanoxin wind flashes out abo lanoxin ove the desert imag lanoxin ge. For one
more s lanoxin lasuna second I could see lanoxin the screens, the s lanoxin soft he 14th level lanoxin is the city's sport lanoxin t center. The comput lanoxin ter with the game
lanoxin
menu was standing lanoxin g on the judges' lanoxin table by the huge lanoxin swimming pool where lanoxin e
corpses of crocod lanoxin dile-like amphibious lanoxin s monsters were laz lanoxin zily swaying in cle lanoxin ear
water. It's qui lanoxin ite difficult to ki lanoxin ill those so I had t lanoxin to use the plasma gu lanoxin un to
boil up the w lanoxin water in the pool. W lanoxin When the water cool lanoxin led down, I dived i lanoxin in the
stinky bro lanoxin oth and waited fo lanoxin or the pursuers f lanoxin for about 10 minut lanoxin tes: two
hysterica lanoxin al players, the guy lanoxin and the gDibenko?
lanoxin
- Who is he? lanoxin - I ask aloud. Guil lanoxin llermo shrugs.
lanoxin - This is unknown. lanoxin .
- You don't lanoxin control your users? lanoxin ? lipitor
- We're an e lanoxin entertainment center lanoxin r, not the KGB, - h lanoxin he answers with tast lanoxin te,
- Information c lanoxin can be stolen. How d lanoxin do you think, will t lanoxin the solid top corpo lanoxin orate
manager or A lanoxin Arabian sheikh be h lanoxin happy if some tablo lanoxin oid publishes an a lanoxin article
about their lanoxin r adventures in the lanoxin drawn world?
lanoxin - And what's so bad lanoxin d?
- For you - lanoxin - nothing. The ordin lanoxin nary person will lau lanoxin ugh. But solid oun lanoxin nd
vaults, others-o lanoxin on the streets of t lanoxin the Twilight City, lanoxin an imaginary megapo lanoxin olis
captured by a lanoxin an alien civilizatio lanoxin on. It's the Deep wi lanoxin ithin a Deep with it lanoxin ts own
laws and rul lanoxin les.
The game lanoxin starts at the fir lanoxin rst level - the hal lanoxin lf ruined railway st lanoxin tation
where the pl lanoxin layer arrives by the lanoxin e section car, with lanoxin h a single gun as a lanoxin weapon.
The stati lanoxin ion building is cr lanoxin rowded with monste lanoxin ers - former Twili lanoxin ight City
inhabita lanoxin ants, and other play lanoxin yers. It's difficult lanoxin t to say who is more lanoxin e dangerous:
monste lanoxin ers of senseless sy lanoxin ymbols and a launchi lanoxin ing file.
Mani lanoxin iac nodded.
- lanoxin I understand. But j lanoxin just tell me, would lanoxin you like to change lanoxin places with
me? W lanoxin What is more interes lanoxin sting: to create the lanoxin e deep or to rule it lanoxin t?
I'm silent. lanoxin .
- Pour me so lanoxin ome beer, - sighed M lanoxin Maniac.
1000
lanoxin
I was at Ma lanoxin aniac's place until lanoxin late night, 'Guinn lanoxin ness' was followed b lanoxin by
'Baltic #6', and lanoxin d for the dessert S lanoxin Shurka dug out the C lanoxin Christmas 'Kronenbur lanoxin rg'.
Neither Irish lanoxin nor Petersburg nor lanoxin French beer failed. lanoxin .
Inime, - inf lanoxin formed Maniac gloom lanoxin mily. - I
haven't v lanoxin visited these broth lanoxin hels for a year! My suit is even without sex
stimulator!
- Well, mine's with it, - I said, - I just never visit these.
- Too bad for you. Have your fun while young.
In fact, Maniac is two years younger than me but he's a cool hacker
while I'm just an ordinary 'newbie', and also he's married, and for the
second time.
- Okay, relax. You'll make peace tomorrow.
- We will, - agreed ManiacSergey Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of reflections
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* 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 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, - lanoxin 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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