Hermetica
| Title | Hermetica |
| Year for Search | 2021 |
| Authors | Lea, Alan |
| Pagination | 114 pp. |
| Date Published | 2021 |
| Publisher | Detritus Books |
| Place Published | Olympia, WA |
| ISBN Number | 9781948501156 |
| Keywords | Male author |
| Annotation | Dase, the protagonist of the novella, lives in Hermetica, which they, the pronoun used for everybody, believes to be a generations starship set on course to a possible new planet after Earth’s civilization had collapsed following a viral pandemic. Most of the novel follow’s Dase in his daily unsatisfying round to a job he hates, the tiny cubicle he lives in that is part of a small, module cut-off from all other such modules within Hermetica designed, everyone is told, to restrict the spread of disease. All aspects of life are constantly monitored. Dase begins to suspect that everything he “knows” about Hermetica is false. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Full Text | 2021 Lea, Alan. Hermetica. Olympia, WA: Detritus Books. 114 pp. PSt Dase, the protagonist of the novella, lives in Hermetica, which they, the pronoun used for everybody, believes to be a generations starship set on course to a possible new planet after Earth’s civilization had collapsed following a viral pandemic. Most of the novel follow’s Dase in his daily unsatisfying round to a job he hates, the tiny cubicle he lives in that is part of a small, module cut-off from all other such modules within Hermetica designed, everyone is told, to restrict the spread of disease. All aspects of life are constantly monitored. Dase begins to suspect that everything he “knows” about Hermetica is false. |
