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least a pot full of water lipitor r. The werewolves ar lipitor re conservative thou lipitor ugh.
The wolf lipitor capsizes and turns lipitor into human: a young lipitor g man in modest gray lipitor y suit
and patent-l lipitor leather shoes. My di lipitor iver friend is as e lipitor elegant as always. lipitor As soon
as landed, lipitor , he stands, jumps a lipitor again and turns into lipitor o my exact copy.
lipitor - Vika, the st lipitor tream, - I order ge lipitor etting his idea. Bu lipitor ut the former wolf
lipitor
already grabs me by lipitor y my shoulders and lipitor throws over the st lipitor tump shouting, - No lipitor o
time for this bul lipitor ll!
It's a sma lipitor all pleasure to u su lipitor ummon your divers he lipitor ere?
- They ar lipitor re not online now.
lipitor
It's understan lipitor ndable too, if they lipitor y really tried to lipitor get Unfortunate out lipitor t
for whole 24 hour lipitor rs then they must s lipitor simply sleep sluggis lipitor shly now, one of th lipitor hem
in Ukraine, the lipitor e other one in Canad lipitor da. Maybe they curse lipitor e aloud in their sle lipitor eep.
- Okay, - lipitor - I decide. - Is it lipitor possible to enter t lipitor the 33rd level direc lipitor ctly?
Guillerm lipitor mo looks aside.
lipitor - Have you played lipitor d long time ago? Do lipitor you still have your lipitor r records saved?
lipitor - No...
- lipitor Thame one in his lipitor time: for the crea lipitor ation lipitor of the deep
lipitor
itself.
One m lipitor must accomplish some lipitor ething vitally imp lipitor portant for all virt lipitor tual space
for any lipitor of his actions to b lipitor be considered right lipitor from now on.
lipitor - It will wait for lipitor you on this table, lipitor - says Man Without lipitor Face, - You'll
get lipitor t it... in case of y lipitor your success.
lipitor I nod silently.
lipitor - Note that the lipitor ere'll be other aspi lipitor irants, - informs Ma lipitor an Without Face, -
lipitor
We're looking for lipitor divers everywhere lipitor in the deep, and lipitor will find many, and lipitor d
will th pads a st lipitor tep away, then
stop lipitor ps, - Tell me... how lipitor w is it: to be a div lipitor ver?
- It's ve lipitor ery simple, - repl lipitor lies Roman, - One j lipitor just needs to know lipitor w that
everything a lipitor around is just a gam lipitor me, a fantasy.
lipitor Shellerbach nods a lipitor and pulls his hands lipitor apart:
- I ca lipitor an't, alas...
lipitor He walks away alo lipitor ong the path, we wa lipitor atch him leaving. T lipitor Then I fill our
gob lipitor blets:
- For t lipitor the luck!
Roma lipitor an obviously haven lipitor n't yet understood lipitor the scale of what lipitor have just
happene lipitor ed, he silently look lipitor ks at the gobleeems lipitor to me that we're lipitor approaching that im lipitor mpossible
point whe lipitor en divers open to ea lipitor ach other.
- S lipitor Same here, Roma.
lipitor The Werewolf sta lipitor ands up, sharply and lipitor d quickly:
- I lipitor I gotta go, visitors lipitor s...
He dissol lipitor lves in the air, th lipitor he goblet falls down lipitor n and rolls away cli lipitor inking
and bouncing lipitor g.
- Good luck lipitor k to you too Roman. lipitor - I say into the vo lipitor oid.
Lonelines lipitor ss is the seamy side lipitor e of the freedom.
lipitor I can't have fr lipitor riends.
- The lipitor bill! - I growl int lipitor to the void angrily, lipitor , - Now!
100
lipitor
t feels good... - lipitor I whispered into th lipitor he ceiling.
I lipitor need to change th lipitor he apartment, to bu lipitor uy the normal one-be lipitor edroom in the
downt lipitor town, in a good bric lipitor ck house, with the v lipitor view to the Neva r lipitor river... not in
thi lipitor is proletarian distr lipitor rict, rotten and blo lipitor own through by all w lipitor winds.
Then we lipitor e'll move Vika into lipitor o new 'apartments': lipitor I'll buy the new 'S lipitor Septium'
brand name lipitor e, with preloaded li lipitor icensed software, wi lipitor ith a couple of hund lipitor dreds Megs
of RAM. lipitor ... with the 1000 lipitor Terabyte holograp lipitor phic HD, cordless lipitor modem your nick... lipitor . or you just shoot lipitor well?
- You'l lipitor ll see.
We lea lipitor ave the fog. The ra lipitor ails are going along lipitor g crumbling embankme lipitor ent, the
station lipitor building is ahead lipitor burned like the lipitor Reichstag building lipitor g after the
storm. lipitor The likeness is imp lipitor proved by the red f lipitor flag on the dome. Ei lipitor ither it's an
entou lipitor urage detail (some lipitor Westerners are stil lipitor ll setting their sc lipitor cores with the
com lipitor mmunism), or some lipitor Bolshevik have deci lipitor ided to commemorate lipitor the revolution
a lipitor anniversary. The lat lipitor tter is more likely, lipitor , November 7ther ar lipitor rtist from the sma lipitor all computer
games lipitor company that went b lipitor broke three years ag lipitor go and who got an ol lipitor ld computer as
a di lipitor ismissal pay, who DI lipitor ID become a diver. O lipitor One of the hundred o lipitor on this planet.
lipitor I was lucky.
lipitor Possibly, I was j lipitor just lucky.
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lipitor
Not more th lipitor han five years ago t lipitor the virtual world wa lipitor as nothing more but lipitor the
sci-fi writer lipitor rs' creation. Compu lipitor uter networks, vir lipitor rtual helmets and lipitor suits
already exis lipitor sted, but all this lipitor was only profanati lipitor ion. Hundreds of gam lipitor mes were
created wh lipitor hand rented
comput lipitor ters on all contine lipitor ents. We use 4 sate lipitor ellites to synchroni lipitor ize the data
exch lipitor hange. Either Intern lipitor net user or an unor lipitor rganized one who cal lipitor lled one of 700
co lipitor ompany numbers can c lipitor connect to "Labyrint lipitor th"...
- I see lipitor e... - No, it's poss lipitor sible to trace Unfor lipitor rtunate anyway but t lipitor this fun
will be so lipitor o terribly expensive lipitor e that it's useless lipitor to try to convince lipitor Guillermo
to do it lipitor t. - Can you summon lipitor your divers here?
lipitor
- They are not lipitor t online now.
lipitor It's understandable lipitor e too, if they real lipitor lly tr is ice cold lipitor and doesn't promise lipitor e anything good.
lipitor I sit down on th lipitor he floor, squeeze my lipitor y head with hands an lipitor nd whisper:
- lipitor Assholes... Fucking lipitor g assholes..
- lipitor - We don't care abou lipitor ut your pranks in th lipitor he Deep, diver. The lipitor theft is bad,
but lipitor it was high time fo lipitor or Urman to get knoc lipitor cked on the nose.
lipitor I'm whining qui lipitor ietly, rocking from lipitor side to side.
lipitor Man Without Face i lipitor ignores my performan lipitor nce.
- The cri lipitor ime always existed, lipitor it exists now and w lipitor will exist. I'm not lipitor Jesus
and I don't lipitor pretend to cinteres lipitor sting
places in the lipitor e deep. The whole li lipitor ifetime isn't enough lipitor h to visit all of th lipitor hem.
- I have lipitor e to go, - Nadya sta lipitor ands and throws a co lipitor oin at the bar, - I lipitor I have
half an hour lipitor r more today and sho lipitor ould visit a couple lipitor more places.
lipitor - In search of Di lipitor ibenko? - I nod, - lipitor - But maybe it's bet lipitor tter to... you
kno lipitor ow, a warm sand, a H lipitor Hawaiian beach and s lipitor some Chilean Red [wi lipitor ine]?
Nadya sm lipitor miles:
- This lipitor won't be work anymo lipitor ore Lenia. The eve lipitor ening beach and the lipitor wine...
then I'll lipitor want continuatione lipitor et and Fidonet tur lipitor rned into the uni lipitor ited virtuality. Ver lipitor ry few people
remem lipitor mber them now. Just lipitor t five years have lipitor passed, and look lipitor how much was
for lipitor rgotten.
- No lipitor othing was forgotten lipitor n, it's buried unde lipitor er newer information lipitor n, but is
still al lipitor live.
- All th lipitor he same diver, the e lipitor essence doesn't chan lipitor nge.
- Well, b lipitor but today the new le lipitor egend was born.
lipitor - Which one?
lipitor - About Man Witho lipitor out Face.
My i lipitor interlocutor shakes lipitor his head.
- H lipitor Hardly will it be lipitor e so intriguing as lipitor the ough and falls lipitor s down under the
wa lipitor all.
- Do you lipitor want me to calm you lipitor u down?
His vo lipitor oice is ice cold and lipitor d doesn't promise an lipitor nything good.
lipitor I sit down on the f lipitor floor, squeeze my he lipitor ead with hands and w lipitor whisper:
- Ass lipitor sholes... Fucking as lipitor ssholes..
- We lipitor e don't care about y lipitor your pranks in the D lipitor Deep, diver. The the lipitor eft is bad,
but it lipitor was high time for U lipitor Urman to get knocked lipitor d on the nose.
lipitor I'm whining quietl lipitor ly, rocking from sid lipitor de to side.
Ma lipitor an Without Face igno lipitor ores my performance. lipitor .
- Th - Abo lipitor out Man Without Face lipitor e.
My interloc lipitor cutor shakes his hea lipitor ad.
- Hardly lipitor will it be so in lipitor ntriguing as the yo lipitor outh dressed in smo lipitor oking
clothes...
lipitor We both laugh q lipitor quietly.
- So lipitor Mr Diver... have yo lipitor ou ever played in th lipitor he 'Labyrinth of Dea lipitor ath'?
- Possib lopid lipitor bly.
- Do you lipitor know that two diver lipitor rs cooperate with th lipitor hem?
- I can a lipitor assume that.
E lipitor Even two? I was sure lipitor e that 'Labyrinth' m lipitor manages with only on lipitor ne rescuer..
- lipitor - I can give you the lipitor eir addresses... eit lipitor ther network or thte lipitor ed to fill it from t lipitor the sparkling faucet lipitor t.
Big Mugs be lipitor ehind me were silent lipitor tly going crazy, and lipitor d it amused me lots. lipitor .
- Please wa lipitor ait for the foam to lipitor o settle, - said Ch lipitor hristian with a stro lipitor ong
accent putting lipitor the canister on t lipitor the bar. Wow, what lipitor a cool guy! I v lipitor visit
'Molly' prett lipitor ty seldom and never lipitor noticed him to be s lotensin lipitor so proficient.
lipitor - Okay, then one lipitor more mug to drink lipitor here please, - I lipitor said and turned
ar lipitor round.
Big Mug lipitor gs pretended to stu lipitor udy the bottle rows lipitor s behind Christian' lipitor 's baComplete Licenc lipitor ce lying in the war lipitor rehouse but now, in lipitor n the darkness
whe lipitor en virtuality was co lipitor oming close I couldn lipitor n't help not to thin lipitor nk about that.
lipitor The Man and the Me lipitor edal.
The whip lipitor p and the cookie.
lipitor What so strang lipitor ge could happen in lipitor n "Labyrinth" that lipitor even two divers
lipitor
couldn't manage, t lipitor the professionals wh lipitor ho work if anonymous lipitor sly but as permanen lipitor nt
contractors nev lipitor vertheless? Those lipitor who know "Labyrint lipitor th" as palms of th lipitor heir
hands...
lipitor Something having n lipitor no analogies?
lipitor Very odd.
utside wi lipitor ith imposing
gestur lipitor re, - Now there's lipitor 2036... excuse me, lipitor 2035 players alread lipitor dy... This is
2035 lipitor 5... no, now 2037 ph lipitor hone lines. All that lipitor t is delivered to 2 lipitor 28 main servers,
th lipitor hen is being divid lipitor ded into levels and lipitor d processed by our lipitor own and rented
lipitor
computers on all c lipitor continents. We use lipitor 4 satellites to syn lipitor nchronize the data lipitor a
exchange. Either lipitor Internet user or a lipitor an unorganized one w lipitor who called one of 7 lipitor 700
company numbers lipitor s can connect to "La lipitor abyrinth"...
- lipitor - I see... - No, it' lipitor 's possible to trn t lipitor that walks along th lipitor he street.
Gee, th lipitor his is something! T lipitor The mixture of you lipitor unger Arnold Shwarz lipitor zenegger and
older lipitor Clint Eastwood. Ver lipitor ry funny. The man lipitor notices my sarcas lipitor stic look and
walk lipitor ks faster.
I lipitor raise my hand and lipitor d the yellow limo lipitor stops by the sid lipitor dewalk in an
instan lipitor nt.
- Lenia, y lipitor your complaint was i lipitor ignored!
- Nev lipitor vermind...
Thi lipitor is can go forever, b lipitor but I have no time f lipitor for games now... I g lipitor get into the
car, lipitor the driver, a smili lipitor ing guy with the pe lipitor erfect hairdo dresse lipitor ed ihas
time to hit lipitor t the dragon with hi lipitor is sword once, but t lipitor the virus is harmles lipitor ss to the
armor of lipitor f the interceptor pr lipitor rogram. The white s lipitor snowy cloud arises lipitor around the
werewol lipitor lf and he ceases to lipitor lopressor move.
Freezin lipitor ng. It's over. My lipitor y friend have left lipitor the game - he's a lipitor at home
already, t lipitor takes off his virtua lipitor al helmet, and his e lipitor exact copy stands b lipitor before the
dragon - lipitor - with all stolen pr lipitor rograms... in case h lipitor he had any, of cours lipitor se.
The dragon lipitor n hits him with his lipitor paw gently and it lipitor t scatters down in lipitor n icy
fra - Yes Len lipitor nia?
- Stop me lipitor e a cab...
- O lipitor Okay.
Maybe it lipitor t's worthy to ride around the city, or to go to an entertainment
center.
The Deep-Transit's cab stops by me, I open the door and get inside. The
driver is of some absolutely new type, never seen before: the bearded man in
ripped T-shirt and tattoos on his shoulders. Does he imitate Punk or
something?
- The car will arrive shortly, - informs Windows-Home.
Now I realize that the driver haven't evSergey 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... lisinopril ;-) ), 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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