Solaris / Stanislaw Lem.
By: Lem, Stanislaw
Publisher: London : Faber & Faber , 2003Description: 214 p. ; 20 cm001: 25407ISBN: 9780571219728Subject(s): Science Fiction | Space | NovelsDDC classification: 823
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The classic sci-fi novel - now a major Hollywood movie starring George Clooney and directed by the Academy Award-winning Steven Soderbergh.
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 physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others suffer from the same affliction and speculation rises among scientists that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates incarnate memories, but its purpose in doing so remains a mystery . . .
Solaris raises a question that has been at the heart of human experience and literature for centuries: can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?
Solaris was the basis of a Soviet film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, and an American film directed by Steven Soderbergh and produced by James Cameron.
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