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* '''''[[Labyrinth of Reflections]]''''' trilogy is set in an [[Alternate History]] where, in the early days of the Internet, a Russian hacker stumbled across a hypnotic pattern that made human brain perceive crude 3D-graphics on a computer display as a full-blown virtual reality. This [[Cyberspace]], called "the Deep", has since become omnipresent. The first novel has been referred to as "Russian answer to ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' and ''[[The Matrix]]''", [[Older Than They Think|despite predating them by a year or two]].
** In the original novel, ''Labyrinth of Reflections'' (1997), a Diver (a rare human who can escape the hypnosis of the Deep without a "counter-hypnosis") named Leonid is hired to help a certain [[The Jinx|Jinx]], who has been stuck in a ''[[Doom]]''-inspired [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] for days. Leonid is an expert at bailing people who get stuck out of the Deep, but this time, the virtual reality itself seems to conspire against him.
** ''False Mirrors'' (1999) reveals that the Divers disappeared from the Deep because they were no longer needed. However, when a friend of Leonid is killed in [[Real Life]] after getting hit by a virtual reality weapon, he reassembles his old crew to find out just what exactly is going on in the Deep.
** ''Transparent Stained-Glass Windows'' (2002) is a short story set some time after ''False Mirrors''. It follows a policewoman investigating a virtual reality prison that turns out to be a secret research project to create new Divers.
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