Solaris (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanislaw Lem
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The future
- Setting: A space station suspended above the oceanic surface of the planet Solaris
- Principal Characters: Kris Kelvin, Dr. Snow, Dr. Sartorius, Rheya
- 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)
The Story:
Kris Kelvin arrived at the Solaris research station to find it in a state of utter confusion. Gibarian, one of the three scientists on staff at the station, had committed suicide. One of the others, Dr. Sartorius, had locked himself away. The third, Dr. Snow, was terrified to the point of madness. While trying to figure out what had happened, Kelvin contemplated the mystery of Solaris: a planet following an impossible orbit around a double sun, seemingly able to do so because the colloidal ocean that covered its entire surface was capable of making continual...
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