Published Jan. 7, 2011 by impedimenta.

ISBN:
978-84-15130-09-3
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4 stars (111 reviews)

7 editions

Review of 'Solaris' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

The newer English translation is a hundred times better then the old, and is as good as the Hebrew translation. To think that such a psychological masterpiece was translated to the English-speaking crowd through its mediocre French translation is to recognize that crime in literary terms has been done.

Review of 'Solaris' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This 'classic' barely hangs on to a three star rating by my scale(s). The early portions of the book were interesting and seemed to bode well. From the middle on to the end, things went 'down hill'. I guess I need to stick with things that appeal more to old cranky people, like me.

Review of 'Solaris' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Holy Moly, this was one weird book.
Not so much the fact that the planet the story takes place on is one big living organism, no, the weird part is that the characters are completely incompetent in communication or working inside an organisation.

It is mind blowing that they weren't supposed to give daily reports back to Earth, or that they didn't set an alarm when they where clearly invaded by this creature.

Sure, the book was written decades before we set foot in space. But come-on, in what world are people going to bring a library of books into space. The writer clearly didn't know anything about science or math to calculate payload.

Review of 'Solaris' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

It was a pleasure to read Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, the source of two great movies, the 1972 Russian production directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and the 2002 American production directed by Steven Soderbergh including the incredible Jeremy Davies with one of the best screen weirdo performances ever. (It is only as I write this that I see that there was a 1968 Russian production called Solyaris that I didn’t know about.) The author was a Polish physician (1921 - 2006), and yet another famous person from Lviv. He is one of the most widely read science fiction writers in the world.

The protagonist in the novel, Kelvin, is a solaricist, a scientist (he is a psychologist) who studies the planet Solaris. Solaris was discovered decades before and it had such peculiar properties, e.g. the planet appeared to modify its own orbit around its pair of stars and the planet was covered …

Review of 'Solaris' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This was a very good, imaginative book. One thing that keeps this book from being amazing is perhaps the translation. I read the book that was a translation of a translation so I'm sure something has been lost. Another thing was weak character development. No matter though because the story itself, even though it is over 50 years old, seems fresh, timely and very original.

Here we explore the limitation of mankind, particularly, how we are bound by our physical apparatus to experience the universe, and how we are bound by the limitations of our own intellect, mental quirks and consciousness. We use our five senses to observe and experience our reality. How can one communicate with something that has none of these things? When we blithely use science to affect a response how can we be sure we are not causing harm when we don't understand the thing we …

Review of 'Solaris' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I still haven't seen either film version of this novel, so I had almost no notion of what I was getting into. Solaris is original, alternately horrifying and philosophical. There are dry portions of Solaris history that are necessary to support the narrative, but derail the action, but I'm very happy with the overall impact.

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