Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

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Solaris

Author:	Stanislaw Lem
Publisher:	Premier Digital Publishing, 2011 Walker Books, 1970 Original Polish publication, 1961
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Book Type:	Novel
Genre:	Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags:	First Contact Hard SF Space Exploration
Awards:
Lists:	The Classics of Science Fiction Guardian: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels Easton Press Masterpieces of Science Fiction Genre-Lit Flicks WWEnd Top Listed Books The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1960s
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Film & Television Adaptations

Solaris

Kinostudiya ''Mosfilm''
3/20/1972

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Solaris

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
11/27/2002

Synopsis

Who's testing whom? When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he is forced to confront 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. Scientists speculate that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, its purpose in doing so unknown.

The first of Lem's novels to be published in America and now considered a classic, SOLARIS raises a question: Can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?

Lem himself, who read English fluently, repeatedly voiced his disappointment about the Kilmartin-Cox translation of the French translation, and it has generally been considered second-rate. In 2011, the first direct Polish-to-English translation by Bill Johnston was released as an audiobook narrated by Alessandro Juliani, and then as an e-book.