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Solaris

Stanisław Lem

Paperback | Pages: 204 pages

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

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

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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

"Typical me, typical meI gave my cargo to the seaI gave the water what it always wanted to be." - Destroyer's Rubies Was the ocean a living creature? It could hardly be doubted any longer by any but lovers of paradox or obstinacy. It was no longer possible to deny the 'psychic' functions of the ocean, no matter how that term might be defined. Certainly it was only too obvious that the ocean had 'noticed' us. This fact alone invalidated that category of Solarist theories which claimed that the

Many sci-fi authors think that they write about aliens. The truth is, they really don't. Instead, they essentially write about humans. Most sci-fi aliens are little more than an allegory for humanity, a mirror through which we can see ourselves - maybe slightly different-looking, with more (or fewer) appendages, different senses, funny names, different social structures - but still unmistakably human. And so, when we think of aliens as shown in popular literature/ cinematography, 99% of us

I rate books based on my enjoyment and while this was an very interesting take on the whole "alien/first contact" I can't say I had a lot of fun reading it.I do recommend it if you love that premise and are intrigue about a sentient ocean but it won't be for everyone!

This is the classic gothic horror haunted house story revisited with an SF twist. It's a testament to the obtuseness of mankind, particularly unemotional, Cold-War era, scientific man. Three scientists on the remote planet Solaris seek contact with the lone enormous creature occupying it -- the ocean. All sorts of experiments are tried over a century or more, but the planet and the humans never achieve, at least to the humans' satisfaction, adequate evidence of a measurable intellectual

Yeah uh, I don't know. This was pretty boring and I'm not sure I entirely understood what was going on..

This science fiction novel seemed very modern, especially for the questions it raises.Three men find themselves isolated in a space station on a single planet were two suns, one red and the other blue, alternately rise, and where a ubiquitous and undoubtedly omnipotent ocean reigns.Kris, the main character, who lastly arrived in the station, discovers at the same time as the reader what it is all about (suicide of the colleague who had called him in reinforcement) and does various experiments to