Solaris /
Lem, Stanis�aw,
Solaris / Lem Stanis�aw ; translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. - 214 pages ; 20 cm
Translated from the Polish. Originally published: 1970.
"Kevin is a psychologist who arrives at a space station orbiting the mysterious planet of Solaris: his mission is to ascertain whether research should be terminated due to lack of progress. He finds the station all but deserted, its straggling crew seemingly haunted by hallucinations of figures from their individual pasts. But then Kevin himself is visited in the middle of the night by a woman who is outwardly identical to his dead wife. Will Kevin be able to resist the disturbing ambience of Solaris, and the emotional pull towards the living, breathing likeness of the woman he loved?"--Page 4 of cover.
9780571311576 0571311571
Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
Scientists--Fiction.
Space colonies--Fiction.
Space flight--Fiction.
Life on other planets--Fiction.
Polish fiction.
Science fiction.
PG7158.L39 PG7158.L39 / S615 2016
891.8537
Solaris / Lem Stanis�aw ; translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. - 214 pages ; 20 cm
Translated from the Polish. Originally published: 1970.
"Kevin is a psychologist who arrives at a space station orbiting the mysterious planet of Solaris: his mission is to ascertain whether research should be terminated due to lack of progress. He finds the station all but deserted, its straggling crew seemingly haunted by hallucinations of figures from their individual pasts. But then Kevin himself is visited in the middle of the night by a woman who is outwardly identical to his dead wife. Will Kevin be able to resist the disturbing ambience of Solaris, and the emotional pull towards the living, breathing likeness of the woman he loved?"--Page 4 of cover.
9780571311576 0571311571
Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
Scientists--Fiction.
Space colonies--Fiction.
Space flight--Fiction.
Life on other planets--Fiction.
Polish fiction.
Science fiction.
PG7158.L39 PG7158.L39 / S615 2016
891.8537