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barrel carbine. homeowner association .
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taking off the homeowner association e headphones as I walk.
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and this is odd.
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one of them. homeowner association .
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forgotte homeowner association en.
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still alive.
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wine: 'Emperor', the homeowner association Chilean one. This girl h homeowner association has a good taste.
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DZZZ! the alarm homeowner association signal in my head.
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together with homeowner association a small viruses collec homeowner association ction. Here it is, my a homeowner association apple: 1.5 Meg
file. Lo homeowner association ooks like the simple fil homeowner association le for Advanced-Word. A homeowner association A couple of smaller
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We knman in homeowner association n modest gray suit
and patent-leather shoes. My diver friend is as elegant as always. As soon
as landed, he stands, jumps again and turns into my exact copy.
- Vika, the stream, - I order getting his idea. But the former wolf
already grabs me by my shoulders and throws over the stump shouting, - No
time for this bull!
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
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?- inquires Wi ...But not her overall behavior...
I shrug. What a strange talk.
- Excuse me... you're Russian, right? - asks the girl.
I nod. There are lots of Russians in virtuality: nowhere else in the
world the computer time usage is controlled as poorly as in our country.
- I'm sorry... - the girl bites her lips slightly, she is obviously
excited, - Of course I'm terribly tactless but... What is your name?
I understand.
- Not Dmitry Dibenko. This is what intback of my driver's head ... the sight's cross in the middle of the screen.
The cheater I am.
I stretched my hand, touched the mouse, moved it along the pad. The
cross slid along the screen.
Here we go.
I opened fire, shooting with the left mouse button and reloading the
rifle with the right one. The bright yellow shells flew across the whole
screen, the headphones rumbled. After I shot those three who were visible, I
moved my shooting at the cars. It's with the only door, very wide like in the garage and heavily
armored as if in warning - it'll be tough to enter uninvited. Usually these
buildings hide either banal consumer goods warehouses or luxury apartments
inside.
- Let's go? - suggests the driver.
I keep silence.
The Beard hits accelerator without a word and the car jumps directly to
the door. In a moment before the impact the door flies open letting us in.
It's really a warehouse.
Lots of shelvSergey 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
Petrovna Alekseevna - women's.
Also, the last names of the Russian origin are gender specific too. To
women's form the endin |