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We go to the right, behind the shelf with Mac software. Illiquid stuff,
only a few people now use these computers. There were humans and
Neanderthals, then IBM and Apple. Stub evolution branches aren't viable. The
small table piled with papers is behind the shelves, two chairs by it. We
sit down.
- In Let the
overconfident newbies ride to the very building. I'd better do it on my own
feet... slowly.
This will be more reliable.
1
The first level is simple by definition. It must be like this in order
for the newbies to draw themselves into the game and believe in their
strengths... in order to come here more and more times. I approach the
station building from its left wing and quickly check several familiar
caches: in the sewer, in the pow
shoot, but it seemed to him that it's HIM running along the corridors,
ducking the fiery balls and snarling monsters' mugs. He understood that this
is just a game, but he didn't know why it became real and how to exit it.
The only thing he could do in this situation was to go until the very
end. And he did it despite the fact that it turned out to be much more
difficult now.
The slight wound now became not just the lowered percent of 'strength'
on the screen, buot? It's foolish to ask, at least because one can't
distinguish well made program from a human at once. I pass the guard and
find myself in a small hall. The bright sunlight beams through windows,
small tables and soft armchairs stand along the walls. More solid table is
in the center of the hall, a smiling girl sits by it: the secretary and most
likely live one.
- Good afternoon, - I say.
The secretary's face changes a little.
- Good afternoon, - she replreal desert..
The statue steadily comes closer and becomes more and more real. The
horned head with grinning mug, the hands bulging with stone muscles. Some
kind of evil genie possibly, I'm too weak in Arabic mythology. The thin
thread is held by the monster's left hand.
The horsehair bridge.
I start climbing up the monster's leg. How ridiculous must my body look
like now in the empty apartment - shaking, pulling up by the air.... don't
loose concentration!
- Whip it up to Maniac!
A pair of very big and round eyes gazed at me.
- Get out, - said the driver in the same brief manner.
When stopping the next volunteer to earn easy money I kept reminding
myself that I'm not in virtuality where patient Vika will turn the simple
voice command into understandable address.
111
Maniac lives on Vasilievsky [Island] {a district of St.Petersburg}.
Panting, I climbed to the fifth floor: at the time this house was bSergey 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 adverse credit homeowner loan secured 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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