| - But I assumed that the
diver's word is piousl car insurance company ly.
- I don't deny car insurance company it. I'll give you the fi car insurance company ile, - with a slight knoc car insurance company ck I send
the diskette a car insurance company across the table, - But car insurance company next time not a single d car insurance company diver will even
move a f car insurance company finger for you. You viola car insurance company ate our ethics, Mr Shell car insurance company lerbach. Any job must
be car insurance company e paid according to it's car insurance company complexity.
Shelle car insurance company erbach picks up the dis car insurance company skette ans freezes. I dr car insurance company rink mulled wine
watch car insurance company hing him. The Werewolf is car insurance company s silent: this is my oper car insurance company ration.
At last She car insurance company ellerbach have finish the car insurance company e canister on the floor a car insurance company and was searching in the car insurance company closet.
- Here.
car insurance company He nodded gratefully car insurance company y opening the pack, I car insurance company waved my hand-keep it- car insurance company -and
closed the door. T car insurance company The carnivores should be car insurance company fed. A little. So they car insurance company y wouldn't
become too im car insurance company mpudent and would retain car insurance company an idea of me being a ' car insurance company 'nice guy' even
in thei car insurance company ir alcohol intoxicated mi car insurance company inds.
I undressed car insurance company quickly, threw the clo car insurance company othes on the bed and c car insurance company came to the
bathroom, st car insurance company tood under cold shower fo car insurance company or a while.
No slee car insurance company eping tonight, ththe bug
car insurance company
knocks against it in th car insurance company he last effort, a short car insurance company flash - and it falls on car insurance company n the
floor.
- Sh car insurance company hould I file the complain car insurance company nt to the landlord? - ask car insurance company ks Windows-Home. Now
the car insurance company e voice comes from silver car insurance company r clips on my shirt's col car insurance company llar.
- Go ahead - car insurance company - I agree. I always forge car insurance company et to explain to the pro car insurance company ogram that
the landlord car insurance car insurance online company d is myself.
The e car insurance company elevator waits for me. U car insurance company Usually I use the stairs. car insurance company ... peeking inside
other car insurance company r apartments along the wa car insurance company ay. Nobody lives there a car insurance company anyway... but now I'm in
car insurance company
hurry. The er face: a y car insurance company young guy with a briefcas car insurance company se.
- Good evenin car insurance company ng, Gunslinger! - the car insurance company voice is too even: car insurance company Hardened
communicates t car insurance company through the interpreter p car insurance company program.
- Good mo car insurance company orning, - I answer look car insurance company king at my watch. Just a car insurance company small mutual
game, to car insurance company figure out the diver's t car insurance company time, to determine what t car insurance company time zone he's in is
not car insurance company t too little to know alre car insurance company eady.
- Oh, don't I car insurance company I really love your humo car insurance company or?.. - Hardened sits on car insurance company the third
chair, looks car insurance company s at me questionably, - H car insurance company Have the crop ripened?
car insurance company - Qms to me that to car insurance company ower at the
right wing w car insurance company was missing before.
car insurance company The section car passes car insurance company the frozen train, new an car insurance company nd clean one, with people car insurance company e
sitting by its windows car insurance company s. Their bodies are cover car insurance company red by some grayish film car insurance company m. This
is the refugees' car insurance company ' train that the aliens h car insurance company had burned when it attemp car insurance company pted to leave
the Twilig car insurance company ght City. I look at th car insurance company he 'refugees' that sit de car insurance company ecorously along the
wind car insurance company dows. Oh yeah. Lamers yo car insurance company ou are, dear "Labyrinth"' car insurance company 's creators. You have no car insurance company o
idea what the REAL eva car insurance company acuation is and how do RE car insurance company EAL rve to go, - Nadya st car insurance company tands and throws a coin a car insurance company at the bar, - I have
ha car insurance company alf an hour more today an car insurance company nd should visit a couple car insurance company more places.
- In car insurance company search of Dibenko? - car insurance company I nod, - But maybe it's car insurance company s better to... you
know car insurance company w, a warm sand, a Hawaiia car insurance company an beach and some Chilean car insurance company n Red [wine]?
Nadya car insurance company a smiles:
- This wo car insurance company on't be work anymore Len car insurance company nia. The evening beach a car insurance company and the wine...
then I'l car insurance company ll want continuation. B car insurance company But virtual sex is funn car insurance company ny only if you're at
ho car insurance company ome, behind the tightly s car insurance company shut door. I connected f car insurance company fe, takes a piece of pap car insurance company per and
writes the sho car insurance company ort address. He does righ car insurance company ht that doesn't try to car insurance company give me the
business c car insurance company card, I'd never take a fi car insurance company ile from him. - These are car insurance company e my coordinates.
Afte car insurance company er you visit "Labyrinth", car insurance company , offer your service to t car insurance company the management and try to car insurance company o
solve the problem, con car insurance company ntact me. Ask for... Man car insurance company Without Face.
He d car insurance company doesn't want to make it c car insurance company clearer and as it seems h car insurance company he doesn't have even
a l car insurance company little doubt that I'll ru car insurance company ush to "Labyrinth" volver car insurance company r is not very loud, the k car insurance company kick is
slight, but
cle car insurance company eaning for a long time car insurance company by now... Then I ploppe car insurance company ed down on the sofa. Goo car insurance company od
that I didn't do the car insurance company bed yesterday. How farsi car insurance company ighted have I become...
car insurance company
For three years alr car insurance company ready, I suppose.
110
car insurance company
It was a quart car insurance company ter before one when I wok car insurance company ke up. The TV set that t car insurance company turned on
at 10 was mut car insurance company ttering quietly. Unpowere car insurance company ed computer was reproach car insurance company hfully silent on
the tab car insurance company ble.
- Oh it feels car insurance company good... - I whispered in car insurance company nto the ceiling.
I car insurance company need to change the apa car insurance company artment, to buy the norm car insurance company mal one-bedroom ic, - Ne car insurance company ext time let me know when car insurance company n you are about to
break car insurance company k into cool places. Okay, car insurance company , start your modem.
car insurance company In a couple of minut car insurance company tes I launched antivirus car insurance company s.. It was really slow, car insurance company ,
informing that a post car insurance company tcard is detected every car insurance company y minute. The polymorph car insurance company h have
plagued the whol car insurance company le computer.
It was car insurance company s really close.
Gla car insurance company ancing at the screen, I'v car insurance company ve built a huge sandwich car insurance company h, poured a hot tea
in car insurance company nto the cup and came out car insurance company to the balcony. It was car insurance company already dark outside a car insurance company and
raining slightly, th car insurance company he air was da He doesn't car insurance company t say the name - the prog car insurance company gram stopped the taxi ano car insurance company onymously.
- How wi car insurance company ill you pay?
- Like car insurance company e this, - I say getting car insurance company the revolver out of my p car insurance company pocket and hit the
guy o car insurance company on the temple really ha car insurance company ard. He tries to block m car insurance company me but it's too late. I
car insurance company
look at his pale face, car insurance company shook him by the collar car insurance company and order:
- Al-Ka car insurance company abar block.
- This car insurance company address doesn't exist - car insurance company - says the driver. He's car insurance company knocked out and
conque car insurance company ered.
- Al-Kabar. car insurance company . 8-7-7-3-8. - the si car insurance company imple code opens the car insurance company access odes that give n car insurance company nonsusceptibility or full car insurance company l weaponry and gear to car insurance company o the player
would be f car insurance company figured when one talks a car insurance company about half a million. An car insurance company ny service channel
would car insurance company d be found and used. W car insurance company We would be forced to car insurance company pay prize amounts too
car insurance company
often... or to be exact car car insurance rate insurance company t, never.
- But how car insurance company w do your divers work?
car insurance company - They had passed car insurance company "Labyrinth" previously. car insurance company . They have records on car insurance company all
levels, in all dang car insurance company gerous places. They need car insurance company d just a couple of minute car insurance company es to get
where they ne car insurance company eed.
Great beginnin car insurance company ng...ge
it... - Man With car insurance company hout Face bends across th car insurance company he table, takes a piece o car insurance company of paper and
writes th car insurance company he short address. He doe car insurance company es right that doesn't try car insurance company y to give me the
busi car insurance company iness card, I'd never tak car insurance company ke a file from him. - The car insurance company ese are my coordinates. car insurance company .
After you visit "Labyr car insurance company rinth", offer your servic car insurance company ce to the management and car insurance company try to
solve the proble car insurance company em, contact me. Ask for.. car insurance company .. Man Without Face.
car insurance company He doesn't want to mak car insurance company ke it clearer and as it s car insurance company seems he doesn't have eve car insurance company en
a little doubt that I car insurance company I'll rush to "Labyrinth" car insurance company volver is not very loud, car insurance company , the kick is
slight, b car insurance company but the car takes fire in car insurance company n an instant. The driver car insurance company sits inside looking
for car insurance company rward. Several seconds, a car insurance company and Deep-Transit has one car insurance company cab less.
Good. Le car insurance company et everything look like car insurance company drunk punks having fun.. car insurance company .. I enter the
forest. car insurance company .
- Not ethical... car insurance company - mumbles Windows-Home f car insurance company from the clips.
- H car insurance company Have you optimized yourse car insurance company elf already?
- Yes. car insurance company .
- Okay, now I nee car insurance company ed help. Look for the cac car insurance company che, access code: "Ivan". car insurance company .
- The glowing tre car insurance company ee, - says the prograas o car insurance company on my
tail... So I decid car insurance company ded to visit 'Strawberry car insurance company Fields'...
- What car insurance company the hell for?
- Do car insurance company on't you really know wha car insurance company at security systems those car insurance company e brothels have? -
Man car insurance company niac was surprised, - T car insurance company This is where senators, D car insurance company Duma deputies, businessme car insurance company en
... other money sac car insurance company cks always are. Security car insurance company y will cut you off fro car insurance company om your
pursuers at onc car insurance company ce!
I shook my head car insurance company d, didn't know that. It' car insurance company 's a shame to confess but car insurance company t I never
visited those car insurance company 'establishments' before. car insurance company .
- So well... I de car insurance company ecided to wait f and ra car insurance company aises his chin proudly. car insurance company . Yes, one can't deny car insurance company her power of
observa car insurance company ation, he's really Russia car insurance company an...
- There's a c car insurance company crowd of Americoses, - car insurance company she goes on without a car insurance company glimpse of
respect, - t car insurance company that weirdo is a Japanes car insurance company se obviously... just look car insurance company k at the eyes he
drew car insurance company for himself. Every nati car insurance company ion has it's own complex car insurance company xes... And here are we,
car insurance company
playing the fool in car insurance company nonexistent restaurant, having nonexistent drink,
hundreds of computers burn up energy, processors heat up in effort,
programmers have restored the control.
But it's too late, I'm on the ground already and the Wolf rushes to me:
- Jump on me NOW Ivan, time to scarper!
I leap on the wolf in an instant, look back for the last time. The
guards jump down from the band and the winged shadow soars above the chasm.
- Sux!!! - I mutter the favorite virtual folks' curse. 'Sux' means a
'frozen' computer, a glitching program, an acescent beer, a trolleybus that
had left the stop just 0 thousand would be not enough... Okay. Let's
assume that I offer 150.000 to the person that tries to steal the file, on
the condition that he agrees to work for car insurance quote us... for the regular, very good
salary.
- What is that, cure for cancer? - I ask.
- No. In that case it would be priceless. It's just a cold reliever,
but very, very effective. We're about to start its production but only after
the less effective medicines are sold out. So, what do you think about my
offer His
viruses are excellent, capable of freezing any computer, but never
destroying the data.
But Maniac called in three minutes.
- Visited Al-Kabar, huh? - asked he in a honey sweet voice.
- Yes. - it made no sense to lie, - You managed it so fast?
- I didn't manage it. This is my virus, buddy.
I couldn't find anything better than to mumble, "Well... sorry about
that..."
Maniac, in the real life just Sasha {Alexander}, was deadly serious:
y Shtirlitz and Pooh anecdotes are so popular in virtuality?! Is
it some weird kind of psychologic aberration?...
- Thanks for the beer, - I say to the girl and walk out of the park.
My mood can't be called lousy, but it's odd. I toil myself along the
clubs' buildings. Through the barred windows of the Martial Arts club I can
see the fragile built Eastern looking guy demonstrating some complicated car insurance ny
moves. In the open air type cinema called 'Movies' the imposing man gesture virtuality but
there are the limits of stamina anyway. That's why players get access to the
game menu at the end of each level where there's an option to save their
coordinates and to exit to the outer deep, to exit in order to return later.
But sometimes there are optimists that decide to pass "Labyrinth" in
one attempt to repeat that very first legendary submersion into virtuality.
They break the security timer, sometimes by themselves, sometimes using some
hacker's prograSergey Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of reflections
________________________________________
* 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 car insurance company 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... ;-) ), 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
P |