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by th homeowner and renter insurance he way...
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about their adventure homeowner and renter insurance es in the drawn world?
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right by the ke homeowner and renter insurance eyboard.
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draw buildings and pal homeowner and renter insurance laces, human faces and machines in al homeowner and renter insurance ll detail, just the
general outline homeowner and renter insurance and several smat or cap. Then I fill homeowner and renter insurance led it with steel gray color and hook homeowner and renter insurance ked
it on my figure, person number s homeowner and renter insurance seven, Gunslinger...
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Beret is on my head. I' homeowner and renter insurance 'm not sure whether it's what Mr Ag homeowner and renter insurance guirre wanted
or not but he looks sa homeowner and renter insurance atisfied.
- We value the divers' work. - says Willy. - But our permanent
employees quite manage it. We need time, small. We'll offer you interesting
work, yes?
I shake my head, beret slides to the side.
- Mr Guillermo, - I say respe weeks.
But then, one day some Ukranian guy looked at the colorful plays of the
Deep program, shrugged and launched his favorite game - Doom: drawn
corridors and buildings, terrible monsters and brave hero with a shotgun in
his hand. A simple 3D game, the whole era of 3D games was started with it.
And he 'fell' into the game.
An empty floor of the Patenting Bureau (it was a late evening) where
the guy worked, disappeared. He couldn't see his computer anyms I know, yes.
Pause. Guillermo weighs something in his mind.
- Mr Gunslinger, what do you know?
It's no use to lie, the man before me is not the one it's worthy to
bluff with.
- Very little. I was informed that there's a problem in "Labyrinth",
that your divers failed to solve it. I was asked to render an assistance to
you.
A pause again. I'm anonymous and it's risky to let me into unpleasant
sides of the Company's life but Guillermo has a 'good nose'n to the driver. We move fast, a couple of
turns and we're before the odd building: partially stone one, partially
wooden, partially built of straw mats.
I enter the too familiar restaurant and look around. It is divided into three parts - Eastern
cuisine is served in the 'mat' one, European - in the stone one, and Russian
- in the wooden one obviously.
I'm not really hungry; virtual food subjectively satiates, and being in
dire straits I usually eat in 'Three piglets', but k after all
Gunslinger. This is the whole world, the miracle world! The miracle can't be
static.
* PART 2. "Labyrinth" *
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The Portal through which "Labyrinth" is connected to the rest of the
deep is really beautiful. It's a huge black marble ark going up into the
sky. Purple sparks slide along it back and forth and low rumble is emitted
by the stone, sometimes accompanied with deep nonhuman sighs. The ark's
entrance is filled with swirling red fog.
Sergey 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 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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