![]() ![]() There’s a naked black woman walking around that Kris knows for a fact isn’t someone who is supposed to be on board. When Kris arrives at the station, he finds it a mess with the scientists Snow and Sartorius going mad. They beam X-rays to the ocean in an unauthorized experiment that affects them psychologically. Scientists have studied the ocean for decades fruitlessly. Kris Kelvan is a psychologist who travels to a space station orbiting the planet Solaris to study an enormous and potentially sentient ocean on the surface. The story takes place in a distant future where humans engage in interplanetary travel. The book has also been adapted for or inspired popular music, theater, operas, a ballet, and a video game. The 1972 Soviet version directed by Andrei Tarkovsky won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The book has been adapted for film three times, most recently in 2002 in a film starring George Clooney and Natascha McElhone. ![]() Published in 1961, the philosophical story focuses on humankind’s inability to comprehend extraterrestrial intelligence. Solaris is a science fiction novel by Polish author Stanislaw Lem. ![]()
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