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files are attached to it though... security programs? I launched the
scanner, especially developed for these types tractor supply company of surprises.
Yup, just as I thought: identification programs which are supposed to
destroy the file if it gets to somebody else's computer.
We know this tractor supply company far too well... And are insured against it for a long time
already: identification programs simply can't see my computer. It's these
- Oh, so this is the reaso tractor supply company on for all this masquerade... - snickers the
wolf again, - And what is inside the apples? {here is a reference to the
Russian fairy tales of course...}
- I d tractor supply company dunno, - I spring down from his back, keeping my hand on his fur, -
Okay, gimme a second, I'll grab some soda and tractor supply company will be right back...
- Go ahead, - agrees the wo tractor supply company olf gazing around.
I half close my eyes.
Abyss-abyss, I'm not yours... let me go, abyss...
I shivered slightly until the end
of the talk, starts the tractor supply company e car. He drives slowly, turning around often as if
expecting a shot at the back of his head.
The highway is quite busy. Huge trailers try to catch up and r tractor supply company ram us a
couple of times. I lower the window and shoot them with rifle aiming at
tires and windshield. These are just trifles yet, the monsters,
"Lab tractor supply company byrinth"'s creations. It's not them whom we should be afraid of.
The man in the front shudders when I shoot at firsu'll save
much more. Happy sailing!
- H tractor supply company Happy sailing! - says admired novice behind me. It's so nice to be an
old-timer...
I wink to the porter and nod towards 'Stallone' in case he'll be too
shy to tractor supply company ask for help himself and leave the hotel. I raise my hand and the cab
stops immediately: this is not reality...
- Deep-Transit is glad to welcome you, Gunslinger! tractor supply company ! - says the driver.
- To "Labyrinth of Death", administrative building, - I reply.
1001
There exis have passed, and look how much was
forgotten. tractor supply company .
- Nothing was forgotten, it's buried under newer information, but is
still alive.
- All the same diver, the essence doesn't change.
- Well, but to tractor supply company oday the new legend was born.
- Which one?
- About Man Without Face.
My interlocutor shakes his head.
- Hardly will it be so intriguing as the tractor supply company e youth dressed in smoking
clothes...
We both laugh quietly.
- So Mr Diver... have you ever plaight now we are in a desperate need
of diver's services.
tractor supply company - Fourth router is traced... fifth router is traced... alarm! Alarm!!
Alarm!!!
- Okay, - I rise too. So sudden.. I never suspected that the serious
busi tractor supply company inessmen are able to make such generous gestures. - I promise to come.
But if you'll excuse me now...
- No Mr Diver, now YOU please excuse me. You'll easi tractor supply company ily leave our
territory, but not before your real address is determined, in order to
guaranteeat I fly on the
ground over his head, examines me intently and ju tractor supply company umps over the stump.
I prefer to use the water to change my image: a stream, a river or at
least a pot full of water. The werewolves are conservative though.
tractor supply company The wolf capsizes and turns into human: a young man in modest gray suit
and patent-leather shoes. My diver friend is as elegant as always. As soon
as landed, he s tractor supply company stands, jumps again and turns into my exact copy.
- Vika, the stream, - I order gettingrns and we're before the odd building: partially stone one, partially tractor supply company y
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' tractor supply company one, European - in the stone tractor supply company one, and Russian
- in the wooden one obviously.
I'm not really hungry; virtual food subjectively satiates, and being in
dire straits tractor supply company s I usually eat in 'Three piglets', but now I just have to wait
for my partner.
he connection while I'm in the
'car', the transportation program which is prob tractor supply company bably capable of tracing the
telephone line?
Geez, just why did I connect from the main address today, now it's an
amateur's task to determine my personality!
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- What do you want?
The driver ignores me, but watches nevertheless, examining me with
curiosity of the hunter who managed to shoot the firebird.
tractor supply company - Okay, you have asked for this, - I say trying not to panic and take
the revme, not for the last
one either...
- She said, it WAS the last time, - info tractor supply company ormed Maniac gloomily. - I
haven't visited these brothels for a year! My suit is even without sex
stimulator!
- Well, mine's with it, - I said, - I just ne tractor supply company ever visit these.
- Too bad for you. Have your fun while young.
In fact, Maniac is two years younger than me but he's a cool hacker
while I'm just an or tractor supply company rdinary 'newbie', and also he's married, and for the
second time.
girl has a good taste.
- I see you here pretty often, - informs the girl.
DZZZ! th tractor supply company he alarm signal in my head.
- Amazing, - I note, - I don't visit this place so often really.
- But I'm here almost always.
Lies.
I can exit virtua tractor supply company ality right now and check a couple of dozens of control
photos stored in the computer: the visitors of the bar for the last two
months. It's always useful to remem tractor supply company mber new faces. But what for, I know well
enough that I never met ere?
- Unfortunately, I don't remember.
Urman shrugs.
- How may I refer to you?
tractor supply company - Ivan The Prince.
Brief pause, then he smiles, Somebody have explained him.
- Oh, the Russian tales' hero! Are you Russian yourself?
- Does it reall tractor supply company ly matter?
- You're absolutely right... Well, Mr Diver, as far as I understand,
you penetrated our block illegally...
- Oh really?! - I'm in shock. - To b tractor supply company be honest, I just was looking for a
job. I saw your ad, croeality is expected, as a result of the 'deadly
impact', otherwise the brains can imagine the real pain s tractor supply company shock, with all its
consequences. Only those suicidal would turn off safety locks of the deep
program.
Or the diver.
My battered body is scattered on tractor supply company n the monster's palm, the skull is
crushed, one eye looks into the hot dusty sky, another one - at the stony
nail. The genie laughs loudly, satisfied and shouts:
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- You who came as a wolf, remember his fate!
mportant enough to not talk with just any visitor.
The warmest welcome is being prepared indeed...
We st tractor supply company top before the little wooden grape twined arbor, I'm pushed forward
from behind and enter. The guards stay outside.
The lodgement looks much more spacious from in tractor supply company nside, the huge pavilion,
the pool in its center where shining sleepy fish floats slowly. The table
with two armchairs stands nearby, lots of flowers, I even sta tractor supply company art feeling
scents.
And nobody.
Wcoups, betrayal, guerilla war 'against everybody'... I
don't know, the game have become more interesting possibly, b tractor supply company but I liked the
previous rules more.
'Mortal Combat' is even simpler. This is a scuffle in virtual space.
One might put on one of hundreds of ready-to-use gu tractor supply company uises or build his own and
to take part in a multiple day tournament for the right to fight the main
villain that plots to conquer the Earth. This is the useful g tractor supply company game, nowhere
else can one steam outne
lives...
- No, - I say with some effort.
- How interesting! I was sure that it's the common dream to determine
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the diver's personality! Including the divers themselves!
- This dream is one of the worst and base crimes... according to our
code.
For the first time I tractor supply company I admit that I'm diver. Hardly my interlocutor had
any doubt about that though.
- One problem have arose in "Labyrinth"... and those two can't manage
it... - tractor supply company Man Without Face bends across tho know our real names.
The Werewolf draws in the air noisily and frowns:
- She tried to mark you!
- I know. Don't worry tractor supply company y, she's just a journalist.
Romka sits and nods to the bartender who makes terribly ugly face but
gives him a full big glass of Absolut-Pepper. It makes me sick tractor supply company to even watch
Roman drinking. But he just
makes a wry face, wipes his lips and returns the glass. Maybe he's alcoholic in reality?
I Dunn.
We hide from tractor supply company each other not less thaner getting his idea. But the former wolf
already grabs me by my shoulders and throws over the stump shouting, - No
time for this bull!
tractor supply company It's a small pleasure to be affected by the foreign morphing program. I
just have time to say: "Vika, freeze" to prevent the careful Windows-Home to
resist the chan tractor supply company nge.
For a long time wasn't I in the wolf's hide, since when virtuality just
appeared and everybody had fun with morphing. Luckily, I don't have to stand
on all f tractor supply company fours, I change onhe multicolor whirlwind flashes out above the desert image. For one
more second I could see the screens, the soft cushion inside the helmet,
t tractor supply company then the consciousness began to drift. The brain tried to resist, but no
use, the deep program affects everybody.
But there are some people - one out of 300. tractor supply company .000 - those who don't lose
the link with reality completely. Those who can surface from the deep on
their own. The divers.
People like me, for instance.
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in virtual suit right on the naked body, with a shotgun in his hand. The gun
was huge, with it the slim and narrow shouldered hacker looked tractor supply company d like a kid
playing war game.
- Wow, - I just said.
- Yeah... I was fumbling in one guy's comp... hardly managed to get my
ass outta there. - Maniac was tractor supply company s brief, he locked the door, glanced at the
canister and asked sympathetically, - Dire straits again?
- No, not really.
- I have a couple of bottles of 'B tractor supply company BaltiSergey Lukjanenko. Labyrinth of reflections
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* Yuri Kalmykov. Translators notes *
About the Author:
tractor supply company 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 inclu tractor supply company udes 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 def tractor supply company fined 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, h tractor supply company he lives in Moscow.
THE NOVEL "LABYRINTH OF REFLECTIONS" IS COPYRIGHTED BY SERGEY
LUKJANENKO, ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED BY THE AUTHOR. ANY COMMER tractor supply company RCIAL USE OF THE
NOVEL'S TEXT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Several notes for the reader:
1). My English tractor supply company sucks. So it was obviously way too presumptuous of me t tractor supply company 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 wor tractor supply company rth 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/ter tractor supply company rms 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 tractor supply company t tractor supply company 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 tha tractor supply company at 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 tractor supply company t
least). But of course, something might have still leaked out. Please
consider yourselves warned.
3). FIDO
Some more confusion can be caused by Luk tractor supply company kjanenko'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. A tractor supply company 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 tractor supply company e 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. tractor supply company . 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 p tractor supply company 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 name tractor supply company es.
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.
tractor supply company Examples: Petrovich Alekseevich - men's
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