Solaris
Author: Stanislaw Lem
Genre: Science Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: ~210
Date Started: ?????
Date Ended: September 16, 2023
Date Ended: September 16, 2023
Finished: Yes
Final Rating: 8.5/10
Final Rating: 8.5/10
Poor Kris Kelvin. Guy studies the planet Solaris all his adult life, spends 18 months in space travelling to the station that hovers over Solaris, and when he gets there the surviving scientists are acting all weird and shit. And then he gets haunted by the phantom of an ex that committed suicide after he treated her like shit. No wonder this guy spends the entire book in an awful mood.
I love going back to classic science fiction. Great ideas, great characters, a great setting; Solaris has them. While Solaris' story is about humanity's continued attempts to communicate with what might be an extraterrestrial intelligence, its also about how even the most rational among us are capable of behaving irrational, and that maybe this penchant for irrationality is human. We find it so difficult to communicate with one another and there's so much about ourselves we don't understand; how the heck do we talk to a plasma ocean thingy?
great book recommend!
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