About the author

From explorer and hobby researcher to novelist

Gregor Spörri has both feet firmly on the ground and describes himself as a critical spirit.
Nevertheless, he is deeply confused by what he experienced in Egypt.
He receives hardly any support from academic circles, neither for a serious analysis of his images of the relic nor for the results of his private research.

H.R. Giger, dark art artist and creator of the legendary film monster Alien (1979), is fascinated by Spörri’s surreal Egypt story.
Haunted by various fears since childhood, which he has processed in numerous paintings and sculptures thanks to his artistic talent, he advises Spörri at one of their meetings that he should process his collected material into a novel or screenplay.
This would allow him to interpret the results of his research free of any uncertainties and concerns, create any ideas he wanted and let his imagination run wild.

Gregor Spörri is a disco organizer and club operator but not an author.
Nevertheless, he takes Giger’s advice to heart and accepts the challenge.

About Spörri’s working method as an author

In order to describe the space scenes (2012 edition) as realistically as possible, Spörri conducts research at the Kennedy Space Center, among other places, where he follows the last launch of the space shuttle Endeavour at close range.
He also consults specialists who have worked on previous space shuttle missions.
For the space scenes in the revised 2024 edition, he naturally also visits SpaceX past.
He even had Illobrand von Ludwiger (graduate physicist and systems analyst for aerospace in the USA, France and England, 1937-2023) carry out an exact calculation for the description of his enormous ship of the gods.
He also visits many of the sites where the events took place and meticulously researches the details, which gives the story a high density of information and credibility, despite being fictitious.

Further information about the author and his work at: About the movie