Solaris

218 pages

English language

Published March 3, 2016

ISBN:: 978-0-571-31157-6

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?

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velvet_shrimp@bookwyrm.social reviewed Solaris by Stanisław Lem

4 stars

Great book, full of weirdness and creative ideas. Not what I expected at all. -1 star because there is a slightly racist passage in the beginning that threw me off. It's an old book though, I think these comments were quite common at the time. Otherwisee great and in some passages the descriptios are quite trippy.