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disability insurance THE NOVEL "LABYRINTH disability insurance OF REFLECTIONS" IS disability insurance COPYRIGHTED BY SERGE disability insurance EY
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I was switched to disability insurance o Russian employee.
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stand up. The body assembles back togetl me just Willy.
Okay, let it be Willy.
I shake his hand.
- You said so interesting things, yes? About problems, divers, help...
- Willy laughs and waves his hands, - Boom! Boom! That help?
Very interesting interpreter program, the strong accent, parasite words
like Guillermo speaks Russian himself. One starts feel different towards the
guy immediately.
- Let's be honest, okay? - I offer. Willy-Guillermo knits his brow and
nods. - I'm diver.
- Yes?- in
a dash forward but just a step aside.
- Vika...
- Yes Lenia?
- Stop me a cab...
- Okay.
Maybe it's worthy to ride around the city, or to go to an entertainment
center.
The Deep-Transit's cab stops by me, I open the door and get inside. The
driver is of some absolutely new type, never seen before: the bearded man in
ripped T-shirt and tattoos on his shoulders. Does he imitate Punk or
something?
- The car will arrive shortly, - informs Windowall in
a couple of seconds. The band under my feet pushes me forward. I laugh
loudly and look back.
Wow!
Just look what's going on in Al-Kabar! The streets are flooded with
people, the other guards already run along the band, and something huge,
snaky and unpleasant crawls out from one of the buildings. It's better not
to look longer.
Faster...
The band jumps over the monster genie and sets itself against the
ground. The guard is alive again, asses of the mask terror and admiration can be seen.
- How did you do that?
- Get out.
He obviously waits for one more shot, but I plainly point at the
bodies, both shot by me and killed in the cars' explosions. Go gather the
weapons. He won't dare to try to shoot me now. The speed and accuracy
demonstrated by me is practically impossible for an ordinary player, only
for the diver... and an old doomer who is used to the mouse.
Doomers already wereh all divers' mysteries become clear.
- Well?
-What does the diver do when he decides to exit virtuality, just thinks
like 'I want to return to reality' or what?
- I heard that one diver... - I looked aside, - Mutters the stupid
rhyme.
- Which one?
- Abyss-abyss, I'm not yours.
- And that's it?
- Sometimes he adds: "Abyss, let me go."
- And that's it? - asked Maniac dolefully.
- Yes.
- My, how simple...
Maniac searched in hSergey Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of reflections
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* 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 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 family health insurance 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 employment insurance 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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