CURIEPOLIS - the hydrogen bomb among novels
Fabian Herrmann has been working on his Curiepolis project since 2011—now the first volume is complete: a dreamlike, surreal future world that is firmly anchored in everyday reality... Or does it just seem that way? Thomas Pynchon and Jorge Borges, Jean Paul and Alfred Döblin come to visit when inventor Annika Palmstroem puts her device into operation and the walls of familiar reality become permeable, cosmic chaos swirling in. Mr. Herrmann designed the illustrations, text design, and page layout himself using software and processes he developed himself: Curiepolis is a total work of art. In order to be independent of the specifications of publishers and self-publishing services, he decided to make the first volume available for free download on his website. As a meme, the project is intended to spread rapidly across the internet. Discover a book that would have caused Marcel Reich-Ranicki's brain to explode.
Fabian Herrmann
Fabian Herrmann was born in Munich on July 26, 1979. At the age of three, he dictated his first literary work to his mother: in it, a man named Kardan romped through a mighty concrete pipe; a flower bed also played a central role in the plot. As a student on the shores of Lake Constance, Mr. Herrmann wrote plays at the age of thirteen that were heavily influenced by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and at nineteen he wrote treatises on science fiction literature and stellar astrophysics. However, he found his physics studies in Jena from 2000 onwards too one-sided, which is why, after extensive preliminary studies, he embarked on his Curiepolis project in 2011, which still keeps him busy today and will undoubtedly continue to do so for many years to come. In the summer of 2018, Curiepolis was funded by the Alfred Döblin Scholarship from the Academy of Arts. The first volume has been completed since 2025 and is available for free download on Mr. Herrmann's homepage.
