The Fourth Protocol (video game) The Fourth Protocol (video game) The Fourth Protocol is an interactive fiction computer game based on Frederick Forsyth's 1984 spy novel "The Fourth Protocol". The detective-style gameplay resembles contemporary menu-driven adventures such as "The Vera Cruz Affair", and later titles such as "Yes, Prime Minister" and "Floor 13". The game was released in by Hutchinson Computer Publishing, a subsidiary of the publishing house Hutchinson. It was designed by John Lambshead and Gordon Paterson, and the programming was by Ben Notarianni, Rupert Bowater and Paul Norris of the Electronic Pencil Company. The game was released for the ZX Spectrum in July
The Gift (Nabokov novel) The Gift (Nabokov novel) The Gift (, "Dar") is Vladimir Nabokov's final Russian novel, and is considered to be his farewell to the world he was leaving behind. Nabokov wrote it between 1935 and 1937 while living in Berlin, and it was published in serial form under his nom de plume, Vladimir Sirin. "The Gift's" fourth chapter, a pseudo-biography of the Russian writer Nikolay Chernyshevsky, was censored from publication in the Russian émigré journal that published the book's four other chapters. The story's apparent protagonist is Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, a Russian writer living in Berlin after his family fled the Bolshevik