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plane o pharmshop of light cuts through the falling aslee pharmshop ep pavilion's little world. Some
peopl pharmshop le call this program "the sticker" pharmshop ", others - "the road". ily determi pharmshop ined. Do you follow my thought?
T pharmshop That's it. Very simple.
I was tra pharmshop aced from the very 'Three Piglets'. R pharmshop Roman had left instantly,
while I deci pharmshop ided to walk a little.
To find an pharmshop n adventure for my stupid ass.
Wh pharmshop hy the hell did I share equally w...
pharmshop The pavilion changes. Ornaments pharmshop are gone, the flowers lose buds and
pharmshop
some small leafs, the texture of Ur pharmshop rman's shirt becomes rough. But I manag pharmshop ge
to reach my toys on the table and pharmshop d grab the handkerchief. These perso pharmshop onal
hygiene thingies are very useful. pharmshop .
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plane of light cuts through the fa pharmshop alling asleep pavilion's little world. pharmshop Some
people call this program "th pharmshop he sticker", others - "the road". pharmshop ily determined. Do you follow my thoug pharmshop ght?
That's it. Very simple.
pharmshop I was traced from the very 'Three P pharmshop Piglets'. Roman had left instantly,
w pharmshop while I decided to walk a little.
pharmshop To find an adventure for my stupid as pharmshop ss.
Why the hell did I share equa pharmshop ally with him?!
- Very interestin pharmshop ng story. How does it relate to me I wo pharmshop onder?
Even if my interlocutor ha pharmshop as no face I know for sure he's smiling pharmshop g.
- One has to lose with honor, pharmshop Mr Diver.
I haven't lost yet, bu pharmshop ut he dhatch. The
most reliable way pharmshop through the third level lies through s pharmshop shit. A few people
use it, it's too pharmshop disgusting despite the shower at the e pharmshop end of the level. But
I don't care, pharmshop I'll pass the sewer looking at the pharmshop screen and moving the
mouse.
- pharmshop - Hey! - shouts my fellow traveler behi pharmshop ind me - Why did you need me? You
are pharmshop the coolest one I've ever met!
M pharmshop Maybe he expects the reply like 'it's e pharmshop easier together' or even an offer
to pharmshop go together further, but I didn't l pharmshop like that here always paranoid slightl pharmshop ly, it can't be helped.
Too many pharmshop people want to know our real names.
pharmshop The Werewolf draws in the air nois pharmshop sily and frowns:
- She tried to m pharmshop mark you!
- I know. Don't worry, pharmshop she's just a journalist.
Romka s pharmshop sits and nods to the bartender who mak pharmshop kes terribly ugly face but
gives him pharmshop a full big glass of Absolut-Pepper. It pharmshop t makes me sick to even watch
Roman dr pharmshop rinking. But he just
makes a wry face pharmshop e, wipes his lips and returns the glass pharmshop s. Maybe he's alcoha is always the
are pharmshop pharmshop ena and crushing a hundred plus mo pharmshop onsters is not like pushing three
b pharmshop buttons.
Fortunately other player pharmshop rs almost never interfere anymore. Th pharmshop he rumors
are creeping across "Labyri pharmshop inth" crossing levels with the ease pharmshop e impossibl Propecia e
even for divers. The deep pharmshop p is not an obstacle for rumors, nothi pharmshop ing could ever
stop them.
Rumors pharmshop s are diver's enemy but now they spread pharmshop d fear across and this works
to my adv pharmshop vantage.
By the end of the 14th l pharmshop level I realize that I ca - And I have pharmshop e my little legal business! What do you pharmshop u want?
- That's better. Mr Dive pharmshop er, have you heard about the Lost Po pharmshop oint? Or
about the Invisible Boss?
pharmshop What I was expecting the least wer pharmshop re the ancient fables.
- 'Point' pharmshop is the old term for the terminal netwo pharmshop ork user?
- Yes, the user of Fido pharmshop onet... this one existed some time ago. pharmshop .
- Maybe I've heard about that. pharmshop ... Is it about the guy who was killed pharmshop by
electric shock being in virtual pharmshop lity? And his consciousness so
energe pharmshop etically standing before the screen. I pharmshop peek inside and hear:
- Cheap st pharmshop tuff! This movie is a disgusting cheap pharmshop stuff!
Boring-boring-boring, Lad pharmshop dies and Gentlemen...
Alexandrian pharmshop ns are probably right: we have turned pharmshop the virtual world into
the parody of pharmshop the real one, but parodies are never b pharmshop better than the original,
their goal i pharmshop is different: to mock it, to show its a pharmshop awkwardness and stupidity.
But we pharmshop e can't change the world, and this paro pharmshop ody makes no sense. It's not
a dash tu pharmshop uff,
only a few people now use t pharmshop these computers. There were humans pharmshop s and
Neanderthals, then IBM and Appl pharmshop le. Stub evolution branches aren't viab pharmshop ble. The
small table piled with papers pharmshop s is behind the shelves, two chairs pharmshop by it. We
sit down.
- Invisible pharmshop e Boss is the tale of the same time pharmshop es. - says Man tramadol Without
Face. - Boss w pharmshop was the higher step in Fidonet hierar pharmshop rchy. It was boss to whom
those who wa pharmshop anted to become points and join to pharmshop virtuality addressed their
requests t pharmshop to...os Angeles?'
The game have c pharmshop changed a little last year, now one has pharmshop s to start it as a
lieutenant being pharmshop in command of a small regiment pharmshop in tactic battles,
submitting to s pharmshop somebody else's orders and to rise sl pharmshop lowly up the hierarchy
until he reach pharmshop hes the rank of the Chief Commander of pharmshop his country. Now there's
a possibilit pharmshop ty of coups, betrayal, guerilla war pharmshop 'against everybody'... I
don't know pharmshop w, the game have become more interesti pharmshop ing possibly, but I liked the
previous pharmshop s rules mor- don't you
think you've so pharmshop old yourself too cheap, Ivan The Prince pharmshop e?
- God knows... - I answer exa pharmshop amining the statue, - I was warned ab pharmshop bout
the bridge...
- What are yo pharmshop ou gonna steal?
- Ripe apples...
pharmshop
- Oh, so this is the reason for pharmshop r all this masquerade... - snickers th pharmshop he
wolf again, - And what is inside pharmshop the apples? {here is a reference to pharmshop the
Russian fairy tales of course...} pharmshop }
- I dunno, - I spring down from pharmshop m his back, keeping my hand on his fur, pharmshop , -
Okay, gimme - Possibly.
Ye pharmshop eah right. The owner of Microsoft in pharmshop pursue of divers along the Net.
First pharmshop tly, he makes money by more traditional pharmshop l means, secondly he doesn't speak
Rus pharmshop ssian himself. But... who knows how per pharmshop rfect interpreter programs might be?
E pharmshop Emotionless tones is the tradeoff of se pharmshop erial made and cheap ones.
- Let pharmshop t's not play the fool, - I say. - You pharmshop decided that I'm the diver?
And dragg pharmshop ged me here for interrogation. I'm afra pharmshop aid you'll be disappointed.
- Thi pharmshop is morning two hackers,
Does the pharmshop security program consider the existenc pharmshop ce of divers?
The monster is mot pharmshop tionless. I'm dead, long time dead.. pharmshop I step on the
hair bridge carefully. pharmshop ...
- Who are you?!
Oh my, pharmshop again... Looks like it reacts to the pharmshop touch of the bridge. Even
worse.
pharmshop - The one who is not at your mercy! pharmshop ! - I reply.
- But whose mercy yo pharmshop ou're at?
Something new.
- pharmshop Allah's, - I answer randomly.
Th pharmshop his time the monster just slams me w pharmshop with the free hand, so that break the pharmshop e security timer, sometimes by themselv pharmshop ves, sometimes using some
hacker's pro pharmshop ogram, they cut off their guaranteed re pharmshop etreat and dive to the very
bottom.
pharmshop It's the divers who drag them pharmshop back. All big game centers have
pharmshop
communication with somebody of us. pharmshop The biggest ones even keep anonymou pharmshop us
employees on permanent contract. pharmshop It's cheaper to pay us than relatives pharmshop s of
the player who died of exhaustion pharmshop n.
I was looking at Unfortunat pharmshop te. He was dressed in regular sil pharmshop lence looking at Maniac.
- I see, pharmshop , - he said. - Well, for the luck. For pharmshop the rich fools and smart
hackers.
pharmshop We touched the glasses.
- Wh pharmshop hat was there Len'ka?
- Runny nos pharmshop se reliever.
- Really? Cool...
pharmshop We chewed a couple franks each a pharmshop and I was drearily thinking that my
pharmshop
anonymity was broken after all. Yeste pharmshop erday there were three attempts to catc pharmshop ch
me.
Today I was just 'calcula pharmshop ated'.
- Lenia, I don't know a si pharmshop ingle diver personally, - said Maniac, pharmshop - ash the canister in cold water, the pharmshop en
in hot one, then in cold again. T pharmshop Then I've put it into the bag that sta pharmshop tramadol prescription ayed
here from previous apartment o pharmshop owners (I never have time to get ri pharmshop id of
garbage) and walked out.
pharmshop My, how much cleaner and neater my pharmshop staircase in virtuality is! And
unl pharmshop like here, no eternal smell of flooded pharmshop basement and stray cats!
Having pharmshop left the side streets I stopped by th pharmshop he road and raised my hand;
I had to pharmshop stand like that for quite a time. pharmshop . Finaller in
virtuality. It means pharmshop s nothing though. Some companies, lik pharmshop ke Microsoft for
instance offer whole pharmshop e palaces for their employees to work pharmshop k: it's cheap and
effective. Some ot pharmshop thers do with such puny little rooms th pharmshop hat one can wonder -
what is virtuali pharmshop ity here for at all.
Obviously Al pharmshop l-Kabar is one of those. I peek into t pharmshop the window of the low
stone building pharmshop that we pass by.
Equipment... to pharmshop oo unfamiliar one to identify, sever pharmshop ral people by the
tables. One of the pharmshop em holds a testThere wouldn't be a pharmshop division into the lucky and the
pharmshop
unfortunate ones which can't be overc pharmshop come. There wouldn't be that ridiculous pharmshop s
situation: excellent programmers no pharmshop ot being able to cross the border betwe pharmshop een
reality and illusion, and clumsy g pharmshop guys like myself who don't even notice pharmshop this
barrier.
There wouldn't ev pharmshop ver be envy to each other and eternal h pharmshop hunt.
But is it my fault? I don' pharmshop 't know why it happens myself, what f pharmshop flaw of
consciousness makes one a di pharmshop iver, and it is of coinths and
castles pharmshop s, fight with monsters or with his pharmshop own friends who sit by the
compu pharmshop uters as well. But even in the worst fe pharmshop everish ravings it was impossible
to pharmshop confuse reality and illusion.
Co pharmshop omputer networks allowed people all ove pharmshop er the world to communicate, but
it wa pharmshop as nothing more than exchanging charac pharmshop cter lines on the screen... in the
bes pharmshop st case - the drawn face of your interl pharmshop locutor could be on the screen too.
pharmshop The real virtuality required too pharmshop o powerful computers, extrecorously al pharmshop long the
windows. Oh yeah. Lamers you pharmshop u are, dear "Labyrinth"'s creators. Yo pharmshop ou have no
idea what the REAL evacuati pharmshop ion is and how do REAL refugees look li pharmshop ike.
I jump over the skirting pharmshop g and roll down the embankment. Let pharmshop t the
overconfident newbies ride to t pharmshop the very building. I'd better do it on pharmshop n my own
feet... slowly.
This wi pharmshop ill be more reliable.
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pharmshop The first level is simple by definit pharmshop tion. It must be like this in order
f pharmshop for the newbies to draw themseSergey pharmshop y Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of reflections
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* Yuri Kalmykov. Transla pharmshop ators notes *
About the Author:
pharmshop
Sergey Lukjanenko, 30, is on pharmshop ne of the today's most popular Russi pharmshop ian
Sci-Fi writers. His first works pharmshop s were published in 1988. Currently pharmshop y his
bibliography includes more than pharmshop 40 titles of novels and short stories pharmshop s. The
Author defines his genre as th pharmshop he "hard action science fiction", but pharmshop t all his
works also have a very well pharmshop defined philosophical aspect. The nove pharmshop el offered
to your attention was writ pharmshop tten in 1997 and became the real 'cult pharmshop book' of the
Russian Internet.
pharmshop Sergey is married, he lives in Moscow. pharmshop .
THE NOVEL "LABYRIN pharmshop NTH OF REFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHTED pharmshop D BY SERGEY
LUKJANENKO, ALL RIGHTS A pharmshop ARE RESERVED BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COMMERC pharmshop CIAL USE OF THE
NOVEL'S TEXT IS STRICT pharmshop TLY PROHIBITED.
Several notes for pharmshop the reader:
1). My English s pharmshop sucks. So it was obviously way too pres pharmshop sumptuous of me to
try to make a trans pharmshop slation like this. It was my love to pharmshop this book only that
made me to ventur pharmshop re into this adventure. ;-) I was hopin pharmshop ng that this novel is
really worth yo pharmshop our 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 purchase viagra 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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