The cult-classic by Stanislaw Lem that spawned the movie is now available for your Kindle! Until now the only English edition was a 1970 version, which was translated from French and which Lem himself described as a "poor translation." This wonderful new English translation (by Bill Johnston) of Lem's classic …
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The cult-classic by Stanislaw Lem that spawned the movie is now available for your Kindle! Until now the only English edition was a 1970 version, which was translated from French and which Lem himself described as a "poor translation." This wonderful new English translation (by Bill Johnston) of Lem's classic Solaris is a must-have for fans of Lem's classic novel.
Telling of humanity's encounter with an alien intelligence on the planet Solaris, the 1961 novel is a cult classic, exploring the ultimate futility of attempting to communicate with extra-terrestrial life.
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.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 18415
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Solaris
234 pages
Italian language
Published 2007 by Mondadori.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-04-56702-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 635676334
Solaris
English language
Published by Berkley.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-425-02101-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 475693508
Solaris
Hardcover
Portuguese language
Published 2017 by Editora Aleph.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-7657-332-6Copied ISBN!
Solaris
213 pages
Hungarian language
Published 1977 by Kriterion.
- ISBN:
- 978-963-07-1172-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 440847961
Solaris
252 pages
Italian language
Published 2007
- ISBN:
- 978-88-04-56702-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 9623446
Solaris
taschenbuch, 238 pages
German language
Published 1975 by Suhrkamp Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-518-06726-0Copied ISBN!
Solaris
Hardcover, 222 pages
Russian language
Published 2002 by AST.
- ISBN:
- 978-5-17-011774-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 655396717
Solaris
292 pages
Spanish language
Published 2011
- ISBN:
- 978-84-15130-09-3Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 11253835
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