Solaris

Name: Solaris
Author: Lem, Stanislaw

by Lem, Stanislaw

A trek across an alien planet is also a coming of age story.

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Psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at a research station hovering over the ocean-covered planet Solaris and finds it nearly deserted: his mentor is dead, and the two surviving scientists seem to be hiding something. Then Kelvin wakes up next to his wife Harey, who died years ago.

She is not a hallucination. The planet's ocean has produced her from his memories, and the scientists have each been visited by someone of their own. Stanislaw Lem's 1961 novel is a meditation on the limits of human understanding and on contact with something that cannot be understood.

About the author

Lem, Stanislaw

Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies. Worldwide, he is best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem

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