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Solaris

Stanisław Lem

Paperback | Pages: 204 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 67227 Users | 3475 Reviews

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Original Title:	Solaris
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Kris Kelvin
Setting:	Solaris (Planet)

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A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts.

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Title	:	Solaris
Author	:	Stanisław Lem
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 204 pages
Published	:	November 20th 2002 by Harcourt (first published 1961)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Classics

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Ratings: 3.98 From 67227 Users | 3475 Reviews

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What I like about this is that Lem throws away what for another writer might have been the central reveal of the story - the sentienancy of the planet. Instead he is relentlessly focused on showing us the one implication of that idea.Very well says Lem, intellectually we can imagine all kinds of crazy things - travel to distant planets, strange unexpected forms of life, but psychologically can we cope with them, can we cope with ourselves, and what we have done in our lives? Probably not very

Have you ever watched a reputed champion for the first time - a Muhammed Ali, a Michael Schumacher, an Andre Agassi by reputation - and been disappointed? Have you heard so much, been expecting something so great, and then watched the title fighter hit the mat in round three, the pole position driver stall on the second bend or the top seed play a dull match with only tantalizing flashes of the brilliance youve heard so much about?That experience is how Solaris felt for me.Solaris has a big

Solaris: Can we communicate with an alien sentient ocean?Originally posted at Fantasy LiteratureSolaris is an amazing little novel with a colorful history. First written in 1961 by Stanislaw Lem in Polish, it was then made into a two-part Russian TV series in 1968, before being made into a feature film by famous Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972. It only reached English publication in 1970 in a Polish-to-French-to-English translation. And just when you thought it had faded from



It is unfortunate that Lem is labeled as an author of "science fiction", but really only because of what the american traditions for that genre have imprinted on our culture. Solaris is a deeply philosophical look at the notion of "otherness", a meditation on the hard limits at the edges of human cognition, and science's inability to look outside of problems that science can describe. Read this book instead of watching either of the films derived from it. Tarkovsky's Solaris is brilliant for

When I was a kid my dad was obsessed with the idea of UFOs and alien contact. He made me and my brother watch endless episodes of trashy American documentaries about sightings and abductions. In fact, I sat through so many of these that I started to have nightmares about bug-eyed extra terrestrial beings entering my room at night. I guess that for my dad who did not have a partner, whose children were emotionally, if not physically, estranged from him, and whose job was not exactly stimulating

(I will review this properly after re-read, but I can say that this book was fantastic; I've seen the newer movie - which was good - and will watch the older at some point. Not action-packed, but more pondering kind of a book.)