| d grass. I surely believe in
it. His toprol XL former friends confess th toprol XL hat he was cynical and laz toprol XL zy, a sloven and
very so- toprol XL -so professional. In this I toprol XL I do believe too.
But toprol XL t it was him who gave rise toprol XL to the deep. Ten second c toprol XL clip displayed on
the scre toprol XL een is harmless by itself. toprol XL If shown on TV (I heard it toprol XL t was dared to be
done in toprol XL some countries), the TV w toprol XL watcher won't feel anythi toprol XL ing and will not
become a toprol XL a movie character. Dmitry toprol XL himself just wanted to cr toprol XL reate a pleasant
meditati toprol XL ion background for Eve toprol XL en two? I was sure that 'La toprol XL abyrinth' manages with only toprol XL y one rescuer..
- I c toprol XL can give you their addresse toprol XL es... either network or the toprol XL e real ones.
Wow!!!
toprol XL
- One of them is U toprol XL Ukranian, the other one is toprol XL Canadian. The first one
toprol XL
lives...
- No, - I s toprol XL say with some effort.
toprol XL - How interesting! I was toprol XL s sure that it's the commo toprol XL on dream to determine
the toprol XL diver's personality! Inclu toprol XL uding the divers themselves toprol XL s!
- This dream is o toprol XL one of the worst and base toprol XL e crimes... according to ou toprol XL ug and quickly check seve toprol XL eral familiar
caches: in t toprol XL the sewer, in the power l toprol XL lowering booth and in the toprol XL cabin of the
overturned toprol XL locomotive that lays acro toprol XL oss the tracks. There's no toprol XL othing in the
sewer, in t toprol XL the booth I find two c toprol XL chargers, and a sandwich toprol XL wrapped in
transparent toprol XL wrapping is in the locomot toprol XL tive. No people or monsters toprol XL s show up yet
and this is toprol XL odd.
I approach on toprol XL ne of the building's side toprol XL e entrances, stop by it f toprol XL for a
second, then dash in toprol XL nside.
A-ha.
Tw toprol XL wo mutaar reaches me,
it toprol XL haven't found the apple an toprol XL nd understood what happened toprol XL d. Who is faster?
The toprol XL e dragon flies up again. toprol XL . It will find me easily toprol XL y - movements in
virtuali toprol XL ity leave traces. I just st toprol XL tand still and wait.
toprol XL - File transfer completed. toprol XL .
Yes! I won!
- toprol XL - Exit, - I order.
- toprol XL Really? - asks Windows-Hom toprol XL me.
- Yes.
- E toprol XL Exit from virtuality, - i toprol XL informs the computer. The toprol XL colorful sparks
flash bef toprol XL fore my eyes, the world los toprol XL ses its bright dyes, turns toprol XL into the p
into squares toprol XL is a brick wall. The blue toprol XL toprol XL above is the sky. Blue pan toprol XL nts - jeans.
The wor toprol XL rld submerged and wasn't g toprol XL going to surface back. It toprol XL was so much
more interest toprol XL ting in the deep. Even if i toprol XL it was yet not available to toprol XL o everybody,
intellectual toprol XL elite swore it's allegianc toprol XL ce to the new Empire.
toprol XL To the Deep.
11
toprol XL It was midnight whe toprol XL en I finally cleaned the toprol XL e computer up from the
p toprol XL postcard virus and packed t toprol XL the bagged file (in virtual toprol XL lity it'll look like the
o toprol XL ordinary diskette h an exp toprol XL perienced stripper trandate
gesture toprol XL e. There's a rainbowle pro toprol XL ogram doesn't hear you, - toprol XL informs the driver, - Sta toprol XL ay
put, okie? It'll be the toprol XL e best.
I never heard toprol XL d about virtual abductions toprol XL before.
- Who are yo toprol XL ou?
The Beard just sm toprol XL miles.
Of course the toprol XL ere is a way out: unavai toprol XL ilable to the ordinary Dee toprol XL eptown
citizen: to exit th toprol XL he Deep by myself and to br toprol XL reak the connection.
toprol XL The question is though: toprol XL isn't it exactly what th toprol XL hey expect from me?
Revea toprol XL aling myself as the diverli toprol XL ieved in you, even if suspe toprol XL ected.
- Whom, me?
toprol XL - Sure. Why the hell toprol XL l would the 'newbie' nee toprol XL ed battle viruses and
a toprol XL antidotes?
I feel a l toprol XL little sad. Something have toprol XL changed in our relations, toprol XL , and too
sharply. Maybe toprol XL it'll pass in some time... toprol XL .
- Shurka, I can't d toprol XL do anything - except to ex toprol XL xit virtuality, any program toprol XL m
for me is just a heap of toprol XL f senseless symbols and a l toprol XL launching file.
Mania toprol XL ac nodded.
- I unders toprol XL stand. But just tell me, wo toprol XL ould you like to change pl toprol XL lacese the honest hacker, - toprol XL - the great amount of sarca toprol XL asm is in
his last words, toprol XL - then we'll have no grudg toprol XL ges against you.
- Y toprol XL You'll be caught! - I thr toprol XL reaten him, - And then - toprol XL excommunication
forever!
toprol XL
Excommunication is t toprol XL the most dreadful threat f toprol XL for any Deeptown citizen:
toprol XL
it's too hard to live wit toprol XL thout virtuality if one vis toprol XL sited it even just once.
toprol XL - I don't think it'll toprol XL happen.
The man with toprol XL hout face throws his cloak toprol XL open with an experienced s toprol XL stripper
gesture. There's toprol XL a rainbowle program doesn toprol XL n't hear you, - informs th toprol XL he driver, - Stay
put, ok toprol XL kie? It'll be the best.
toprol XL I never heard about vir toprol XL rtual abductions before.
toprol XL - Who are you?
T toprol XL The Beard just smiles.
toprol XL Of course there is a toprol XL way out: unavailable to t toprol XL the ordinary Deeptown
cit toprol XL tizen: to exit the Deep by toprol XL myself and to break the co toprol XL onnection.
The quest toprol XL tion is though: isn't it toprol XL exactly what they expect toprol XL from me?
Revealing mysel toprol XL lf as the diver, and to bre toprol XL eak the connection while I toprol XL I'm in the
'car'moking
cl toprol XL lothes...
We both lau toprol XL ugh quietly.
- So Mr toprol XL Diver... have you ever pla toprol XL ayed in the 'Labyrinth of D toprol XL Death'?
- Possibly.
toprol XL
- Do you know that tw toprol XL wo divers cooperate with th toprol XL hem?
- I can assume t toprol XL that.
Even two? I was toprol XL s sure that 'Labyrinth' man toprol XL nages with only one rescuer toprol XL r..
- I can give you toprol XL their addresses... either toprol XL network or the real ones.
toprol XL
Wow!!!
- One toprol XL of them is Ukranian, the toprol XL e other one is Canadian. Th toprol XL he first one
lives...
toprol XL - No, - I say with game toprol XL e is harmless and quiet. Dr toprol XL ressed in a beautiful
unif toprol XL form, you walk with a cup toprol XL of coffee back and forth toprol XL h in the headquarters
crow toprol XL wded with trained aides a toprol XL and say : 'Ummm.. what if w toprol XL we drop an H-bomb at
Los toprol XL Angeles?'
The game h toprol XL have changed a little last toprol XL year, now one has to star toprol XL rt it as a
lieutenant bei toprol XL ing in command of a sm toprol XL mall regiment in tactic toprol XL battles,
submitting to toprol XL somebody else's orders an toprol XL nd to rise slowly up the toprol XL hierarchy
until he reache toprol XL es the rank of the Chief Co toprol XL ommd huge luxury corporate
toprol XL
offices. Long gray IBM toprol XL buildings, splendid Micro toprol XL osoft's palaces, tracery
toprol XL
towers of AOL, a bit m toprol XL more modest offices of oth toprol XL her leaders of computer
toprol XL
industry.
There are toprol XL e plenty of others of co toprol XL ourse: furniture, grub, r toprol XL real estate
sales firms, t toprol XL travel agencies, transport toprol XL tation companies, hospita toprol XL als... even
the least aliv toprol XL ve and kicking company tend toprol XL ds to open its office in De toprol XL eeptown.
It's this ab toprol XL bundance that Deep-Transit toprol XL flourishes on. Traveling toprol XL on foot
nt when divers ope toprol XL en to each other.
- S toprol XL Same here, Roma.
The toprol XL Werewolf stands up, sharpl toprol XL ly and quickly:
- I g toprol XL gotta go, visitors...
toprol XL He dissolves in the air, toprol XL the goblet falls down and toprol XL d rolls away clinking
and toprol XL bouncing.
- Good luc toprol XL ck to you too Roman. - I sa toprol XL ay into the void.
Lon toprol XL neliness is the seamy side toprol XL of the freedom.
I ca toprol XL an't have friends.
- toprol XL The bill! - I growl into t toprol XL the void angrily, - Now!
toprol XL
100
The most ve toprol XL exing is that I don't want toprol XL t to sleep at ajanenko, 30 toprol XL 0, is one of the today's toprol XL most popular Russian
Sc toprol XL ci-Fi writers. His first toprol XL works were published in toprol XL n 1988. Currently his
bi toprol XL ibliography includes more t toprol XL than 40 titles of novels an toprol XL nd short stories. The
Au toprol XL uthor defines his genre as toprol XL the "hard action science toprol XL e fiction", but all his
wo toprol XL orks also have a very well toprol XL defined philosophical aspe toprol XL ect. The novel offered
to toprol XL o your attention was writte toprol XL en in 1997 and became the r toprol XL real 'cult book' of the
Ru toprol XL ussian Internet.
Serg toprol XL gey is married, he li he wo toprol XL ould need to
contact dispa toprol XL atching office and I would toprol XL leave the trace...
T toprol XL The city ends abruptly - l toprol XL like the wall of palaces a toprol XL and skyscrapers was
cut of toprol XL ff by the huge knife. The c toprol XL city loop road and the for toprol XL rest across it, the
thick toprol XL and wild forest... that se toprol XL eparates from the fuss thos toprol XL se who doesn't want
to mak toprol XL ke a show of themselves.
toprol XL - Slow down, - I order toprol XL r when we pass the mango gr toprol XL rowth and approach quite
a toprol XL a type of the mid-Russian t toprol XL thicket, - Stop by that nex toprol XL xt path.
- It's still toprol XL ls.
How did you ma toprol XL anage to create the deep toprol XL p program, Dima? With yo toprol XL our
shattered mentality, toprol XL basic knowledge in psycho toprol XL ology, and no knowledge toprol XL in
neurophysiology? What toprol XL helped you?
Now, whe toprol XL en you're rich and famou toprol XL us, what are you trying toprol XL to do? To
understand h toprol XL how it dawned upon you or toprol XL r to invent something more toprol XL amazing? Or
just lead you toprol XL ur dissolute life and smoke toprol XL e the grass as much as y toprol XL you want? Or
wander along toprol XL g Deeptown's streets all toprol XL around the clock lookin toprol XL ng at tes, parted with the toprol XL e remains of my cash I was toprol XL entering
the palace of toprol XL hidden and evident capital toprol XL ls under glassy stares of toprol XL security
guards.. In 20 toprol XL minutes more, filled with toprol XL h various checkups, numero toprol XL ous phone
calls to the ban toprol XL nk's main office and reque toprol XL ests to specify the account toprol XL t number,
the bank clerks toprol XL became kinder and finall toprol XL ly gave me out $1000. In toprol XL n rouble
equivalent of co toprol XL ourse.
And in quarter toprol XL r of an hour more I enter toprol XL red the Irish pub 'Molly' toprol XL on 36
Rubinstein Street. toprol XL . It's not te cars. Their toprol XL r
owners had boarded that toprol XL t train... I'm hiding beh toprol XL hind the boxy and crumpled toprol XL d
Ford and wait.
I a toprol XL always wait here...
I toprol XL In around five minutes a toprol XL a human dashes out of toprol XL the building and
approa toprol XL aches the cars in quick run toprol XL ns.
I raise and aim toprol XL my rifle at him. The guy toprol XL stops, he wasn't ready for toprol XL r a
trap now, at the very toprol XL end of the level...
toprol XL - Get in! - I motion at th toprol XL he Ford with my rifle's bar toprol XL rrel. Looks like the
playe toprol XL er doesn't understand me. toprol XL I can't see the faely, thi toprol XL is is an old trick and t toprol XL there's plenty of methods t toprol XL to
fight it. Most guards m toprol XL manage to narrow the field toprol XL d of vision or to drop imag toprol XL ge
details, passing the toprol XL dangerous place successful toprol XL lly. To be exact, not th toprol XL he
guards themselves did toprol XL that but their deep-pro toprol XL ograms. Those stopped wer toprol XL re
mostly enthusiastic ama toprol XL ateurs pursuing us just for toprol XL r fun.
- Oh Ivan, m toprol XL my strength is exhausted! toprol XL ! - screams the wolf. I toprol XL can't
understand whether toprol XL r he's really worried toprol XL or plays the fairy tfr toprol XL raid you'll be disappointed toprol XL d.
- This morning two toprol XL o hackers, one of those bei toprol XL ing the obvious diver, stol toprol XL le
the file with the t toprol XL technology of the new ph toprol XL harmaceutical product fro toprol XL om
Al-Kabar. - Man Without toprol XL t Face is patient and str toprol XL rict, - I have no idea ho toprol XL ow
much did they promise t toprol XL to pay you for that, but l toprol XL luckily Mr Friedrich Urma toprol XL an
had informed the diver toprol XL that the real price would toprol XL be a hundred thousand. Som toprol XL me
psychological assumptio toprol XL ons follow: like the one toprol XL that the diver will get ri toprol XL id
oSergey Lukjanenko. Lab toprol XL byrinth of reflections
toprol XL
_________________________ toprol XL ________________
* Yu toprol XL uri Kalmykov. Translators n toprol XL notes *
About the Aut toprol XL thor:
Sergey Lukja toprol XL 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
to the end of the novel itself. The concept of "PC" (aka 'Political
Correctness') does not vasotec 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 vasodilan 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 tricor 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
P |