Solaris (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanislaw Lem
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The future
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Extraterrestrial life, Future, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Mysteries, Planets, Monsters, Ocean
- Locales: Solaris (fictive)
Places Discussed
Solaris. Fictional planet in a distant star system on which the entire novel is set. A planet in a binary stellar system (one with two suns), Solaris has a highly unstable orbit that may be related to the complex gravitational forces of a binary star but which also seems to be effected by the mysterious living ocean that covers most of the planet. In the future period in which the novel is set, humans have reached this mysterious world and established a small experimental base on it. On the planet, the humans come under the influence of Solaris’s living...
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