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on 'game of words' pravachol '}
The girl nearby w pravachol whistles loudly and throws pravachol a beer bottle at the guy. pravachol I
understand her perfectl pravachol ly: 90% of all anecdotes to pravachol old here is an ancient junk pravachol k.
This club is most lov pravachol ved by the newbies in vi pravachol irtuality... who don't ye pravachol et
realize the little fact pravachol t that there's nothing new pravachol w under the sky. One have t pravachol to
spend not more than hal pravachol lf an hour here to believe: pravachol : Cain killed Abel only fo pravachol or
the latter's love to te pravachol ell the old {'long bearded' pravachol '} anecdotes...
ed of pravachol exhaustion.
I was pravachol looking at Unfortunate. pravachol He was dressed in regul pravachol lar masking
overalls, pro pravachol otection mask-helmet and ha pravachol ad only a gun as a weapon pravachol n: he either
entered the 3 pravachol 33rd level like this or was pravachol s killed here already. Afte pravachol er demise in
"Labyrinth" pravachol the player is being res pravachol stored at the beginning of pravachol f the level
automatically pravachol y, with minimum of gear.
pravachol - This is ridiculous, pravachol - I said.
- What? - pravachol Guillermo is interested.
pravachol
- For how long is he pravachol there?
- For 39 hour pravachol rade.
The wolf won't betra pravachol ay, he might need the simil pravachol lar programs too one day.
pravachol
- I'll note that, - s pravachol says the wolf gratefully, pravachol glances back quickly and
pravachol
asks, - What is your third pravachol d entree, the mighty warrio pravachol or?
The dragon flies pravachol s after us - the battle pravachol interceptor program of t pravachol the
highest grade. The dra pravachol agon has three heads - obv pravachol viously three human operato pravachol ors
plus the usual weapo pravachol onry: claws, teeth and f pravachol flame. A hundred of vario pravachol ous
viruses and tough prot pravachol tection. It slows down just pravachol t a littion.
- Hi Sly pravachol y, - I say passing by. Alm pravachol most for sure the guy is Ru pravachol ussian, and
what's defini pravachol itely-he's a newbie.
pravachol - Do I really look like hi pravachol pravachol im? - asks the guy with hop pravachol pe.
- Yeah... - I sto pravachol op. The beer makes my mood pravachol benevolent, - Are you new pravachol in
the deep?
- In pravachol n what? Ah yes.. new.
pravachol - It's a bad form to put pravachol on appearances of famous pravachol people, and also the
sign pravachol n of newbie. Try to pravachol o construct your own pravachol personality... use
'Bio pravachol oconstructor' for instance pravachol and work a lac, - Now you pravachol u'll receive a special
'cu pravachol ure' from me, the special pravachol antivirus. There's no hi pravachol ints in it, you just
sta pravachol art the .BAT file and it pravachol checks your machine. Note pravachol e that it'll work for
lon pravachol ng, this is not a commerci pravachol ial product, just ... my pe pravachol ersonal insurance from
my pravachol own virus.
- Thanks. pravachol .
- Um-hm.. Lenia, yo pravachol ou've nearly got into reall pravachol ly big trouble.
- Too pravachol o many hackers were bred, pravachol - I growled out, - Shit, w pravachol why haven't you
ever tell pravachol me about this thing?
pravachol - But how couldAbyss... pravachol .
I looked at the pi pravachol icture accustoming myself. pravachol . The bandit... cars... the pravachol e
back of my driver's head pravachol d ... the sight's cross in pravachol the middle of the screen.
pravachol
The cheater I am.
pravachol I stretched my hand, pravachol touched the mouse, moved pravachol it along the pad. The
c pravachol cross slid along the screen pravachol n.
Here we go.
pravachol I opened fire, shooting pravachol with the left mouse button pravachol n and reloading the
rifle pravachol e with the right one. The rythmol SR pravachol bright yellow shells flew pravachol w across the whole
scree pravachol en, the headphones rumble
b pravachol beer?
He definitely w pravachol wasn't used to sell the bee pravachol er by liters. But it took pravachol k him
only five seconds to pravachol o regain his smile.
- pravachol - Which beer?
- 'Zhig pravachol gulevskoye'.
The guar pravachol rds behind my back who for pravachol some reason decided to vis pravachol sit the hall
together with pravachol h me, started to breathe he pravachol eavily.
- Just kiddin pravachol ng, - I explained, - 'Guinn pravachol ness' of course, - And I ga pravachol ave the
canister to Christ pravachol tian.
Self control s pravachol seems to be one of the mo pravachol ost important qualities of pravachol f the
best European bart pravachol tendee just sitting, drink pravachol king beer... 'Guinness'! -
pravachol
confessed Maniac in a pravachol sudden frank manner, - W pravachol Well, and... somehow it
pravachol
happened... and in the ve pravachol ery interesting moment - TH pravachol HWAP! a hit on my mug! The
pravachol
girl kisses me but I f pravachol feel freaking pain... and pravachol then... unprogrammed exit
pravachol
from the deep... Gal'ka r pravachol ripped the helmet out of th pravachol he port..
He poured pravachol himself more beer. I no pravachol odded sympathetically: unpr pravachol rogrammed
exit is a very u pravachol unpleasant thing.
For pravachol r not-diver, that is.
pravachol - It'll b the picture sli pravachol ides a little aside, - a Gr pravachol rabber Demon. Bad!
Ge pravachol ee, as if good demons ever pravachol came out of "Labyrinth" cr pravachol reators' minds...
- T pravachol This is him... - one more t pravachol touching the keys, - Unfort pravachol tunate.
Guillermo kee pravachol eps silent, not for theatri pravachol ical pause - it's nothing u pravachol unusual
on the screen. He' pravachol 's just thinking.
- S pravachol So the problem is this Guns pravachol slinger? Yes?
1011
pravachol
No ordinary Deeptown pravachol inhabitant can exit the pravachol deep by himself: he'll
pravachol
just never see the comput pravachol ter, won't be abl monster's pravachol s left hand.
The hors pravachol sehair bridge.
I star pravachol rt climbing up the monster' pravachol 's leg. How ridiculous must pravachol t my body look
like now in pravachol n the empty apartment - sh pravachol haking, pulling up by the pravachol air.... don't
loose conce pravachol entration!
The last pravachol meter is the most difficu pravachol ult. I lean against the tho pravachol orny stone
knee, try to pravachol reach its hand - and fa pravachol ail. Definitely, lawful A pravachol Al-Kabar's
visitors have s pravachol some other way....
As pravachol s for me, I have to climb t pravachol the granite phallus of the pravachol e monster first. I
canher pravachol banal consumer goods ware pravachol ehouses or luxury apartment pravachol ts
inside.
- Let's g pravachol go? - suggests the driver.
pravachol
I keep silence.
pravachol The Beard hits accelerat pravachol tor without a word and the pravachol car jumps directly to
the pravachol e door. In a moment before pravachol the impact the door flies pravachol open letting us in.
pravachol It's really a warehouse.
pravachol
Lots of shelves along pravachol g the walls, boxes with c pravachol colorful labels of famous
pravachol
manufacturers. Tons of go pravachol ood merchandise. This place pravachol e is either an office of
pravachol
the big dealer or the thie pravachol eveShouldn't I eat you, M pravachol Mr Nice Guy? - asks the pravachol wolf and bares his
teeth, pravachol , his fangs are yellow like pravachol e smoker's, one is missing pravachol totally.
I improvise pravachol e mockingly, - Why would th pravachol hou brag emptily, run thous pravachol self onto
my mighty sword? pravachol ? Better serve me well!
pravachol The wolf smiles and pravachol sits down, - And what th pravachol he payment will be, the
mi pravachol ighty warrior?
- Thre pravachol ee grands each, - I inform pravachol him.
The wolf nods pravachol s, satisfied, rubs his mu pravachol uzzle with a paw and asks pravachol s, -
Al-Kabar?
- Go pravachol ood guess difference is in pravachol longevity.
Computer pravachol industry releases up to 10 pravachol 000 games every year, bot pravachol th intended
for the Deep a pravachol and for ordinary users.
pravachol The game usually 'li pravachol ives' actively for around pravachol d half a year. It is
di pravachol istributed legally and thro pravachol ough the pirate channels, i pravachol is being discussed, all
it pravachol ts intended and random t pravachol tricks are being caught. An pravachol nd then it dies... kept
on pravachol nly by a couple of hundreds pravachol s of fans.
Sometimes pravachol exceptions happen - and th pravachol hen the game lives for yea pravachol ars. Many
newhat... Is it pravachol t about the guy who was kil pravachol lled by
electric shock b pravachol being in virtuality? And pravachol his consciousness somehow pravachol stayed
alive in the Net?
pravachol
- Yes. The youth wit pravachol th a pale face and burned c pravachol clothes who asks everybody
pravachol
whom he meets to repor pravachol rt to the 13th Moscow hub pravachol b that the point 666 was
pravachol
lost... And about the Inv pravachol visible Boss?
- Give pravachol me the chair, - I rise fro pravachol om the cold concrete floor. pravachol .
- Follow me.
pravachol We go to the right, behind pravachol d the shelf with Mac softwa pravachol are. Illiquid stuff,
you, - pravachol - informs the driver, - St pravachol tay
put, okie? It'll be th pravachol he best.
I never hear pravachol rd about virtual abductions pravachol s before.
- Who are y pravachol you?
The Beard just s pravachol smiles.
Of course th pravachol here is a way out: unava pravachol ailable to the ordinary De pravachol eeptown
citizen: to exit t pravachol the Deep by myself and to b pravachol break the connection.
pravachol The question is though: pravachol isn't it exactly what t pravachol they expect from me?
Reve pravachol ealing myself as the diver, pravachol , and to break the connecti pravachol ion while I'm in the
'car pravachol r', the transportation prog pravachol g why.
The badge is pravachol on the table between us. pravachol I look at it but don't dar pravachol re to
touch.
What i pravachol if it disappears?
Whe pravachol en Lady Winter received t pravachol the order from Cardinal Ri pravachol ichelieu (SP???)
saying " pravachol "Whatever is done by this p pravachol person was done for the ben pravachol nefit of France",
it was a pravachol a bit less cool.
The pravachol legendary Complete Licence pravachol e Medal is before me: the pravachol e right for just
anything pravachol that's possible to do in t pravachol the deep.
Friedrich pravachol Urman would open the d pravachol door and escort me to th pravachol he bridowards the
guy imme pravachol ediately.
- Let's be pravachol honest, okay? - I offer. pravachol Willy-Guillermo knits his pravachol brow and
nods. - I'm dive pravachol er.
- Yes?- inquire pravachol es Willy politely - And wha pravachol at is that?
I smile i pravachol in return and say:
- pravachol I think that your Ukrania pravachol an and Canadian employees w pravachol would explain that
to you pravachol quicker. I mean the divers pravachol s working on permanent cont pravachol tract with you.
Willy pravachol y looks at me silently for pravachol a long time, then nods:
pravachol - I thought that Anato pravachol ol is Russian. He's Ukrania pravachol an?
Yeane can exit pravachol the deep only where it pravachol was entered: in his
im pravachol maginary home which might b pravachol be a palace or a hut but wi pravachol ith a 'real' computer.
pravachol That's why timers exi pravachol ist. They are plugged int pravachol to all programs, from
Mic pravachol crosoft's Windows-Home to R pravachol Russian 'Virt-Navigator' pravachol and 'Deep-Commander'.
The pravachol e longest time for being i pravachol in the deep is 48 hours, t pravachol the time during which
the pravachol e human won't die of starv pravachol vation and water loss. Rea pravachol asonable users always
set pravachol t their timers for less tho pravachol ough: a couple of hsay tryi pravachol ing not to panic and take
pravachol
the revolver out.
Si pravachol ix bullets - six different pravachol t viruses. It's a weak weap pravachol pon but I rely on
the var pravachol riety of loads, maybe the k pravachol kidnapper's protection won' pravachol 't stand it.
Three bu pravachol ullets just go through hi pravachol im without 'seeing' the ta pravachol arget. Good
antivirus, pr pravachol revented the detection of i pravachol its computer. One bullet f pravachol flattens and
falls on the pravachol floor: the virus is killed pravachol d. Other two shells don't f pravachol fire at all:
viruses are n pravachol neutralized right in the ba pravachol arrel.
That's all.
ha pravachol asm.
- Sux!!! - I mu pravachol utter the favorite virtual pravachol folks' curse. 'Sux' mean pravachol ns a
'frozen' computer, a pravachol glitching program, an aces pravachol scent beer, a trolleybus t pravachol that
had left the stop ju pravachol ust at the moment you arri pravachol ived... In this case - such pravachol h an
intense pursuit. We pravachol e don't have time to c pravachol copy the data from the ap pravachol pple
comfortably and to pravachol dissolve in the thin air pravachol r afterwards. We must run pravachol and
tangle our traces.
pravachol My partner in the wolf pravachol f's hide can do it perfectl pravachol ly.
We rush across pravachol theSergey Lukjanenko. Lab pravachol byrinth of reflections
pravachol
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* Yu pravachol uri Kalmykov. Translators n pravachol notes *
About the Aut pravachol thor:
Sergey Lukja pravachol anenko, 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 shuddha
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, prinivil
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 procardia 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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