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too familis the Deep within a Deep with its own
laws and rules.
The game starts at the first level - the half ruined railway station
where the player arrives by the section car, with a single gun as a weapon.
The station building is crowded with monsters - former Twilight City
inhabitants, and other players. It's difficult to say who is more dangerous:
monsters are armed better but the players are smarter than machines
obviously. One can find weapons, defense gear, firseep without the human after all?
I blinked once, relaxed trying to enter virtuality by my own and failed
of course. I'm not in the desert, I'm at home, by the keyboard. I had to
type the command:
deep
[Enter]
The multicolor whirlwind flashes out above the desert image. For one
more second I could see the screens, the soft cushion inside the helmet,
then the consciousness began to drift. The brain tried to resist, but no
use, the deep program affects evever senseless.
- Yes, maybe, - Nadya glances at me quickly, - Let's better call it not
topical one. And what, is this really a new era of the world's technology?
- But what did you expect? The file exchange and discussions of
processors' quality? We're humans after all.
Nadya frowns:
- We're people of the new era. Virtuality can change the world, but we
prefer to mask it to fit the old dogmas. Nanotechnology used to imitate a
drink is worse than a microscstant.
Maniac laughed softly:
- Don't consider me a lamer Lenia, otherwise you'll receive such a nice
'hello' in the mail that you'll have to reinstall whole freakin' HD from
scratch... Divers never pick an ordinary guys to assist them.
I kept silence looking at Maniac.
- I see, - he said. - Well, for the luck. For the rich fools and smart
hackers.
We touched the glasses.
- What was there Len'ka?
- Runny nose reliever.
- Really? Cool...
he 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. E programmers and ending with secretaries and janitors, wanted to visit
the cyberspace personally.
With Dibenko's light touch the program was named 'Deep' and began its
march all over the world. The studies proving that around 7% of people are
not affected by the abyss were still ahead, as well as those proving that
being in virtuality for more than 10 hours a day might lead to nervous
disorders and pseudoschizoid syndrome. Just a month left until the first
death inawberry Fields'...
- What the hell for?
- Don't you really know what security systems those brothels have? -
Maniac was surprised, - This is where senators, Duma deputies, businessmen
... other money sacks always are. Security will cut you off from your
pursuers at once!
I shook my head, didn't know that. It's a shame to confess but I never
visited those 'establishments' before.
- So well... I decided to wait for half an hour, - went Maniac on with
his us. One must believe and not believe in it at the same time.
Otherwise one day you'll not be able to surface.
1
The first movements are the most difficult. The small room, the table
in the middle of it, computer wires from the UPS go to the computer, the
thinner wire plugged into the phone jack. The sofa stands by the wall, under
the luxury carpet, the small fridge is by the opened door to the balcony.
The necessary minimum. Five minutes ago I checked what's in Sergey 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 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 allstate health insurance 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 allstate car insurance quote 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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