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Despite the whistles and shouts the guy finishes t pharmacy shop telling his anecdote
and runs from the stage looking aro pharmacy shop ound in a primed way. Lonely applause can
be heard: gee pharmacy shop ez, who could imagine... I look around for the bar, it's i pharmacy shop in the
far corner of the park. The girl gives me a bottle pharmacy shop e of beer without a word.
- Thanks.. - I make a si pharmacy shop ip. The ice cold 'Heineken' raises my spirits
instantly. pharmacy shop .
One more guy ascends the stage, this time much mo pharmacy shop ore individual looking
one, ou decided that I'm the diver pharmacy shop r?
And dragged me here for interrogation. I'm afraid you' pharmacy shop 'll be disappointed.
- This morning two hackers, one pharmacy shop e of those being the obvious diver, stole
the file with pharmacy shop h the technology pharmshop of the new pharmaceutical product pharmacy shop from
Al-Kabar. - Man Without Face is patient and stric pharmacy shop ct, - I have no idea how
much did they promise to pay y pharmacy shop you for that, but luckily Mr Friedrich Urman
had infor pharmacy shop rmed the diver that the real price would be a hundred thou pharmacy shop usand. Some
psy
here from previous apartment owners ( pharmacy shop (I never have time to get rid of
garbage) and walked pharmacy shop d out.
My, how much cleaner and neater my stairca pharmacy shop ase in virtuality is! And
unlike here, no eternal smell pharmacy shop l of flooded basement and stray cats!
Having left th pharmacy shop he side streets I stopped by the road and raised my hand; pharmacy shop ;
I had to stand like that for quite a time. Final pharmacy shop lly one junky 'Lada'
condescended to stop.
- To t pharmacy shop the 'Kredo-Bank', - I said.
As strange as it seems, pharmacy shop th letters.
- Read.
There was nothing interes pharmacy shop sting in the mail: invitations to visit two new
clubs, pr pharmacy shop rice lists of some small trading company, the letter fr pharmacy shop rom Maniac
sent in the morning...
- Delete everyth pharmacy shop hing, - I said sitting by the computer. I plugged the
pharmacy shop
suit in and put on the helmet. - Vika, connect to Deep pharmacy shop ptown... through the
spare channel. Person number seven.
pharmacy shop
I didn't use this connection for at least three pharmacy shop months, as well as the
'person number seveno pay priz pharmacy shop ze amounts too
often... or to be exact, never.
- B pharmacy shop But how do your divers work?
- They had passed "La pharmacy shop abyrinth" previously. They have records on all
levels, pharmacy shop , in all dangerous places. They need just a couple of min pharmacy shop nutes to get
where they need.
Great beginning...
pharmacy shop
- How much time does it require to reach the 33rd le pharmacy shop evel?
- From 25 hours to infinity.
What was Ma pharmacy shop an Without Face counting on anyway? If "Labyrinth"'s div pharmacy shop vers
fail to get Unfortunate out beauty.
The Deep. pharmacy shop It is called so in English but it seems to me that pharmacy shop the
Russian word {glubina} sounds better. Having broad pharmacy shop der meaning, it changes an
attractive label into the warn pharmacy shop ning: THE Deep! Sharks and octopuses live here.
It's quie pharmacy shop et, and presses, presses, presses by the endless space whi pharmacy shop ich doesn't
really exist.
In general the deep is pharmacy shop kind, in its own way of course. It accepts
everybody pharmacy shop y. It requires just a little strength to dive, but so much pharmacy shop h more - to
reach thisgusting and dull.
- Deep! - I pharmacy shop I ordered.
The head responds with pain - I don't car pharmacy shop re. I storm between the spears,
fall on the floor. The sh pharmacy shop hiny band flows along the street crashing everything
on pharmacy shop its way. The buildings crumble, the wall blows up with pharmacy shop h a thunder-like
sound. The band flies across the chasm. pharmacy shop Now full speed forward!
Those two guards run to i pharmacy shop intercept me, both with swords, but I've
unsheathed pharmacy shop my own already. Whose virus is faster and more agile?
pharmacy shop Miney, I have some experience after all. But
sometim pharmacy shop mes... such shit happens anyway...
He kept silence f pharmacy shop for some time, twiddling the frank in his hands, then
i pharmacy shop informed:
- I ate a mouse a couple of days ago.
pharmacy shop - What?!
- A computer mouse.. Well, not the mouse pharmacy shop e itself, it's too hard... just
bit off the wire.
pharmacy shop - Why? - I asked numbly.
- It was an accident pharmacy shop t... I was in the deep.. We were sitting in
"Rainbow pharmacy shop w" with some guys, drinking beer with smoked fish..
pharmacy shop The wolf capsizes and turns into human: a young man in m pharmacy shop modest gray suit
and patent-leather shoes. My diver frien pharmacy shop nd is as elegant as always. As soon
as landed, he stand pharmacy shop ds, jumps again and turns into my exact copy.
- Vik pharmacy shop ka, the stream, - I order getting his idea. But the for pharmacy shop rmer Propecia wolf
already grabs me by my shoulders and throws ov pharmacy shop ver the stump shouting, - No
time for this bull!
pharmacy shop It's a small pleasure to be affected by the foreign morph pharmacy shop hing program. I
just have time to say:dome. Either it's a pharmacy shop an
entourage detail (some Westerners are still setting pharmacy shop their scores with the
communism), or some Bolshevik h pharmacy shop have decided to commemorate the revolution
anniversary. pharmacy shop . The latter is more likely, November 7th is in three days pharmacy shop s.
- Now look attentively and be prepared, - say pharmacy shop ys Alex from behind my
back, - The trap is there for pharmacy shop sure. You know, everybody needs the spare
charger...
pharmacy shop
- I know, - I say turning around. I shoot twice and pharmacy shop d the already aimed
gun ser to get the water in the bath pharmacy shop hroom.
Okay, this is decided: let's celebrate the m pharmacy shop move for Vika. It'll not be
a shame to invite friends the pharmacy shop en.
I rose, padded to the fridge and took out a can pharmacy shop of beer. I don't drink
before noon usually, but it's al pharmacy shop lmost 1PM already. What a good time I woke up
at!
T pharmacy shop The light 'Schultheiss' seemed almost strong in the mornin pharmacy shop ng. It's over,
good bye 'Amsterdam-Navigator' and 'Bavar pharmacy shop ria-86', the good friends of poor
hackers. From now o pharmacy shop on - only ' up. My companion is
absolutely indifferen pharmacy shop nt to the cold. Maybe his helmet is simpler, without air
pharmacy shop
conditioner?
Who knows... pharmacy shop
He earns not less pharmacy shop s than me, but maybe he has a huge family? Or maybe
Rom pharmacy shop man really is alcoholic who squanders grands in just weeks pharmacy shop s?
There's a small stone hut behind us: this is how pharmacy shop w the restaurant looks
like from this side. We walk alon pharmacy shop ng the path slowly, sipping our drinks.
- Do you lik pharmacy shop ke pepper vodka? - I ask the Werewolf incidentally.
e pharmacy shop e was cynical and lazy, a sloven and
very so-so profess pharmacy shop sional. In this I do believe too.
But it was him who pharmacy shop o gave rise to the deep. Ten second clip displayed on
th pharmacy shop he screen is harmless by itself. If shown on TV (I heard i pharmacy shop it was dared to be
done in some countries), the TV watch pharmacy shop her won't feel anything and will not
become a movie ch pharmacy shop haracter. Dmitry himself just wanted to create a pleasa pharmacy shop ant
meditation background for his computer, and he did, pharmacy shop , let it circulate along
the Net and didn'tn the file...
pharmacy shop
- Have you contacted anybody via modem? I mean, si pharmacy shop ince you received the
file.
- No.
- Lucky you pharmacy shop u, - tramadol informed Maniac, - You see, this is not just an ordin pharmacy shop nary
virus, it's a postcard.
I didn't understand an pharmacy shop nd Maniac explained:
- A postcard with return pharmacy shop address. If the virus detects the
communication h pharmacy shop hardware on the computer, it attaches the second letter to pharmacy shop o any
of yours: a tiny, invisible one... a postcard. pharmacy shop Without any text but with
youre before the odd buildi pharmacy shop ing: partially stone one, partially
wooden, partially bu pharmacy shop uilt of straw mats.
I enter the too familiar restaurant pharmacy shop and look around. It is divided into three parts - Eastern pharmacy shop n
cuisine is served in the 'mat' one, European - in the s pharmacy shop stone one, and Russian
- in the wooden one obviously.
pharmacy shop I'm not really hungry; virtual food subjectively satia pharmacy shop ates, and being in
dire straits I usually eat in 'Three p pharmacy shop piglets', but now I just have to wait
for my partner.
pharmacy shop
I walk direcrds the
guy immediately.
- Let's pharmacy shop be honest, okay? - I offer. Willy-Guillermo knits his br pharmacy shop row and
nods. - I'm diver.
- Yes?- inquires Willy pharmacy shop y politely - And what is that?
I smile in return and pharmacy shop d say:
- I think that your Ukranian and Canadian em pharmacy shop mployees would explain that
to you quicker. I mean the di pharmacy shop ivers working on permanent contract with you.
Willy pharmacy shop looks at me silently for a long time, then nods:
- pharmacy shop I thought that Anatol is Russian. He's Ukranian?
Ye pharmacy shop eah, o me first. - So you are the
Gunslinger, yes? Call pharmacy shop l me just Willy.
Okay, let it be Willy.
I shak pharmacy shop ke his hand.
- You said so interesting things, yes? pharmacy shop About problems, divers, help...
- Willy laughs and wave pharmacy shop es his hands, - Boom! Boom! That help?
Very interest pharmacy shop ting interpreter program, the strong accent, parasite word pharmacy shop ds
like Guillermo speaks Russian himself. One starts feel pharmacy shop l different towards the
guy immediately.
- Let's be pharmacy shop e honest, okay? - I offer. Willy-Guillermo knitsbodies, b pharmacy shop both shot by me and killed in the cars' explosions. Go pharmacy shop gather the
weapons. He won't dare to try to shoot me pharmacy shop e now. The speed and accuracy
demonstrated by me is pharmacy shop practically impossible for an ordinary player, only
for pharmacy shop r the diver... and an old doomer who is used to the mouse. pharmacy shop .
Doomers already were divided into 'keyboardists' pharmacy shop ' and 'mousists'. The
eternal argument who is cooler was pharmacy shop s never solved: virtuality had come.
Now I dot the " pharmacy shop "i's".
One of the bandits is sgrowls the wolf. He is pharmacy shop sn't right of course, one can't carry
too many viruses, pharmacy shop but we both start losing the nerve.
The wolf deci pharmacy shop ides something and turns aside sharply, running even
pharmacy shop
faster. Then he stops by the big mossy stump, so suddenl pharmacy shop ly that I fly on the
ground over his head, examines me i pharmacy shop intently and jumps over the stump.
I prefer to use pharmacy shop the water to change my image: a stream, a river or at
l pharmacy shop least a pot full of water. The werewolves are conservative pharmacy shop e though.
The wol.. Pah!. No need to
think at all, pharmacy shop , just drag the arrow along the screen and gaze at the pic pharmacy shop ccies.
- And what about you? Still fooling with 'pol pharmacy shop luos' '? {OS/2: 'half-os'}
- Why 'fooling'?!, - sai pharmacy shop id Maniac with indignation, - It's the best OS
if not to pharmacy shop o count UNIX! I've installed the new purchase viagra version 2 days ago, i pharmacy shop it rocks!
- I hear this every time I visit you, - I pharmacy shop I said, - "Have installed...
new version... fucked up m pharmacy shop my brains for three days until managed to tune it
up... pharmacy shop ." While ISergey Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of reflections
pharmacy shop
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* Yuri Ka pharmacy shop almykov. Translators notes *
About the Author:
pharmacy shop Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, is one of the today's most pharmacy shop t popular Russian
Sci-Fi writers. His first works we pharmacy shop ere published in 1988. Currently his
bibliography incl pharmacy shop ludes more than 40 titles of novels and short stories. T pharmacy shop The
Author defines his genre as the "hard action scienc pharmacy shop ce fiction", but all his
works also have a very well defi pharmacy shop ined philosophical aspect. The novel offered
to your att pharmacy shop tention was written in 1997 and became the real 'cult book pharmacy shop k' of the
Russian Internet.
Sergey is married, he l pharmacy shop lives in Moscow.
THE NOVEL "LABYRINTH pharmacy shop OF REFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHTED BY SERGEY
LUKJANENK pharmacy shop KO, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COMMERCIAL pharmacy shop USE OF THE
NOVEL'S TEXT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Sev pharmacy shop veral notes for the reader:
1). My English sucks pharmacy shop s. So it was obviously way too presumptuous of me to
try pharmacy shop to make a translation like this. It was my love to this pharmacy shop s book only that
made me to venture into this adventure. pharmacy shop ;-) I was hoping that this novel is
really worth your k pharmacy shop kind attention (despite my ugly
English?).
2). Som pharmacy shop me opinions expressed in this book by the main or pharmacy shop r other
characters, as well as some words/terms used, mi pharmacy shop ight be considered offensive
to some Western readers. In pharmacy shop n fact, one such situation was even showed closer
to th pharmacy shop he end of the novel itself. The concept of "PC" (ak pharmacy shop ka 'Political
Correctness') does not really exist in Rus pharmacy shop ssia which fact IMHO makes the life
much easier and sligh pharmacy shop htly 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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