(but maybe, we should worry more about how the ocean would try to talk to us) It's a very disturbing read from the start, and you can feel the disquiet grip you into the pages immediately, but it's pretty dense and it can get dry. Know what this reminded me off a lot? "Moby Dick". It's those ess...
The premise is that a scientist is sent to Solaris (a planet with a space station) only to discover that the 3 inhabitants which he was meant to meet have been reduced to two. Our main character, Kris Kelvin, arrives hoping to crack the enigma of the alien ocean which comprises the whole of the plan...
Even if this is the alleged "bad translation" I still really got into it. It's scary and slow. I love reading about humans confronting the truly alien and realizing their limits.
Even if this is the alleged "bad translation" I still really got into it. It's scary and slow. I love reading about humans confronting the truly alien and realizing their limits.
This is a perfect recording. First, an impeccable translation of a top science fiction classic. When I listened, I kept having to remind myself that this novel was first published in Polish in 1961! According to Wikipedia, this edition was rendered specifically for Audible through the estate of the ...
** spoiler alert ** Well-written, but I don't see the point. Maybe it makes more sense in the original language but for me the book was kinda meaningless. The author goes through the whole trouble of having planet create "visitors" for the scientists only to deny them the peer-to-peer contact with t...
An interesting work of science fiction. The book has a quiet dreamlike quality and explores ideas in an interesting fashion. It has a truly unknowable and incomprehensible alien at its core: a world spanning ocean. Solaris is pretty clearly one of the most interesting aliens ever written and so a...
I've considered Solaris one of the best science fiction novels ever written, as it is really one of the few that addresses a major concept overlooked by many (communication between humans and aliens). The book may seem a little drawn out to many, as it was written by a Polish/Eastern Bloc writer. St...
Even after decades of study the ocean planet Solaris remains inscrutable to mankind's attempts at communication. They measure the planet with every device at their disposable, and can quantify the ocean's depth, it's mass and know where the underground trenches are. They have all the tools to take m...
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