Solaris - Stanislaw Lem

Name: Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
Brand: Faber & Faber
Price: 14.95 USD
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Faber & Faber

$14.95

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem / ISBN 9780571311576 / 214-page paperback from Faber & Faber

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The classic sci-fi novel in a beautiful new edition.

When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others suffer from the same affliction and speculation rises among scientists that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates incarnate memories, but its purpose in doing so remains a mystery . . .

Solaris raises a question that has been at the heart of human experience and literature for centuries: can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), a writer called “worthy of the Nobel Prize” by the New York Times, was an internationally renowned author of novels, short stories, literary criticism, and philosophical essays. His books have been translated into forty-four languages and have sold more than thirty million copies.

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