The "new book by Alex" is a present. A legacy. A bliss. Most people who know Alex Randolph as game designer, might not be aware of the fact that he actually was a poet and author.
At least until a mad, politically motivated fire-raiser threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of his studio in Venice in the 60ies and almost all his poems, scripts, documents and collected ideas were burned and destroyed irrecoverably. The fire didn’t harm him as he was on a trip abroad at that time.
The tragedy of it is that the mad firebug did not want to go for him at all. He only took the wrong window, the assault was intended on his neighbour next door.
Fortunately, the original script of “A portrait of Nellie” was not kept in the studio at that time and therefore survived the fire. We received it for publishing from his widow in 2007. Thanks, Gertrude!
After the awful fire disaster Alex concentrated almost exclusively on designing games. Every now and then, however, also on creating special creatures and characters, like OHNIS or PHOMPHEN…
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