Solaris (novel)

Solaris
Cover of the first edition
AuthorStanisław Lem
Cover artistK.M. Sopoćko
CountryPolish People's Republic
LanguagePolish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherMON, Walker (US)[1]
Publication date
1961
Published in English
1970
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Audio
Pages204
ISBN0156027607
OCLC10072735
891.8/537 19
LC ClassPG7158.L392 Z53 1985

Solaris is a 1961 science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It follows a crew of scientists on a research station as they attempt to understand an extraterrestrial intelligence, which takes the form of a vast ocean on the titular alien planet. The novel is one of Lem's best-known works.[2]

The book has been adapted numerous times for film, radio, and theater. Prominent film adaptations include Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 version and Steven Soderbergh's 2002 version, although Lem later remarked that none of these films reflected the book's thematic emphasis on the limitations of human rationality.[3]

  1. ^ "Solaris". Solaris. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
  2. ^ Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia, fourth edition (1996), p. 590.
  3. ^ Lem, Stanisław (8 December 2002). "The Solaris Station". Stanislaw Lem. Retrieved 13 July 2013.

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