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Solaris
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Book+covers | Stanisław Lem: Solaris
Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris follows the strange adventures of psychologist Chris Kelvin on a space station hovering above the surface of the distant planet Solaris. Let’s take a look at some of the different covers of this book, which has been translated and published all over the world.
Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) is one of the most important authors of twentieth-century science fiction. Lem studied medicine but never finished his studies, so he worked as a research assistant, writing stories in his spare time. His first novel, The Astronauts, was published in 1951, followed by a steady stream of works, including Eden (1959), Solaris (1961), and The Cyberiad (1967). He received numerous honors in Poland and abroad, was elected a member of The Polish Academy of Sciences in 1972, and was made an honorary citizen of Krakow in 1977.
In his most famous novel, Solaris, published in 1961, the protagonist, psychologist Chris Kelvin, arrives at a research station to observe the behavior of the intelligent entity, the ‘ocean,’ which covers the surface of the planet Solaris. After decades of human exploration, Solaris is a familiar but still mysterious planet. After an experiment to make contact, the ‘ocean’ begins to trigger memori
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Stanislaw Lem (Trans. Bill Johnston) - Solaris
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Stanisław Lem
Solaris translated by Bill Johnston
Copyright © Barbara and Tomasz Lem, 2011
Newcomer
3
Solaricists
13
Guests
29
Sartorius
39
Harey
53
The Minor Apocrypha
69
Deliberations
93
Monsters
109
Liquid Oxygen
137
A Conversation
153
Thinkers
165
Dreams
183
Success
195
The Old Mimoid
205
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Newcomer At nineteen hundred hours ship’s time I climbed down the metal ladder past the bays on either side into the capsule. Inside, there was just enough room to raise my elbows. After I attached the end of the cables into the port jutting from the side of the capsule, my space suit filled with air and from that point on I couldn’t make the slightest movement. I stood, or rather hung suspended, in a bed of air, all of one piece with my metal shell. Raising my eyes through the convex porthole I could see the walls of the bay and. higher up, leaning in, Moddard’s face. It quickly disappeared and everything went dark as the heavy protective cone was put in place from above. I heard the eight-times-repeated whirr of the electric motors tightening the screws. Then the hiss of air entering the shock absorbers. My eyes were getting using to the dark. I could