At 19.00 hours, ship's time, I made my way to the launching bay.
Solaris
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An edition of Solaris
(1962)
Solaris
by Stanisław Lem
- 9 Ratings
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- 4 Currently reading
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Previews available in: Italian English Spanish / español Hungarian
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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Solaris
November 20, 2002, Harvest Books
in English
- First Harvest edition 1987
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"At 19.00 hours, ship's time, I made my way to the launching bay."
Table of Contents
| Chapter 1 | The Arrival | 7 |
| Chapter 2 | The Solarists | 18 |
| Chapter 3 | The Visitors | 36 |
| Chapter 4 | Sartorius | 45 |
| Chapter 5 | Rheya | 60 |
| Chapter 6 | "The Little Apocrypha" | 75 |
| Chapter 7 | The Conference | 99 |
| Chapter 8 | The Monsters | 115 |
| Chapter 9 | The Liquid Oxygen | 140 |
| Chapter 10 | Conversation | 155 |
| Chapter 11 | The Thinkers | 166 |
| Chapter 12 | The Dreams | 184 |
| Chapter 13 | Victory | 194 |
| Chapter 14 | The Old Mimoid | 202 |
| Afterword | The Open-Ended Parables of Stanislaw Lem and Solaris, by Darko Survin | 212 |
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