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Solaris

Stanisław Lem

Paperback | Pages: 204 pages

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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	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 204 pages
Published	:	November 20th 2002 by Harcourt (first published 1961)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Classics

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Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.- Stanislaw Lem, SolarisI'm kinda giddy about both starting and finishing this on June 5, 2012 (Transit of Venus). I figure if I can measure how long it takes me to read this novel in English and French and Polish, I might be able to figure out the exact distance from Solaris to my

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

Although the book was written back in 1960, the last century, I must admit that I did not notice it at all. This book is a timeless masterpiece of science fiction. Everything we know about the universe in the book there is a review, not to speak of the human psyche that the writer brought to the last hidden parts of humanity. The book examines all. At the end of what we know about the universe, only tiny details and the man is not at all aware of what hidden in the vastness of the stars. The

"We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is." Bizarrely, being on a strange, different planet sometimes is what it takes to discover our inner cosmos. The way Lem describes it in Solaris, our memories rule our perception of what is real, regardless of external circumstances. On the other hand, the external circumstances of any given time are actively impacting on what

(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.)

Solaris was fantastic, and Lem continues to amaze. This is the second novel that I've read by him, the first being The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy which I reviewed here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....The style of these two books couldn't be more different. TFC is hyper and absurdist and satirical, while Solaris is methodical and claustrophobic and creepy. In fact, I would describe Solaris as a horror sci fi novel with the tonality of an existentialist