Solaris Paperback - 2002
by Lem, Stanislaw
- Used
The first of Lem's novels to be published in America and now considered a classic, "Solaris" raises a question: Can one truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within?
Description
Details
- Title Solaris
- Author Lem, Stanislaw
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-11-20
- Features Movie/TV Tie-In
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4890060-6
- ISBN 9780156027601 / 0156027607
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.36 x 0.57 in (20.32 x 13.61 x 1.45 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Life on other planets
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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.
First line
From the rear cover
When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself confronting a painful memory embodied in the physical likeness of a past lover. Kelvin learns that he is not alone in this and that other crews examining the planet are plagued with their own repressed and newly real memories. Could it be, as Solaris scientists speculate, that the ocean may be a massive neural center creating these memories, for a reason no one can identify?
Long considered a classic, Solaris asks the question: Can we understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?
A novel that makes you reevaluate the nature of intelligence itself. Anne McCaffrey
Stanislaw Lem (1921 2006) is the author of many works bearing the broad label of science fiction and others ranging in genre and style from satire to philosophy. Lem s books have been translated into forty-one languages and have sold over forty-five million copies.
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