Solaris

Solaris

( Polish - Solaris - 1961 )

novel by Stanislaw Lem

translated ( from French edition ) by Joanna Kilmartin & Steve Cox

Published: Walker and Co. - hardback - 1970 ( US )
ISBN: 0802755267 / 9780802755261

Faber and Faber - hardback - 1971 ( UK )
ISBN: 0571092055 / 9780571092055

Berkley Medallion - paperback - 1971
ISBN: 0425021017 / 9780425021019

Arrow Books - paperback - 1973
ISBN: 0099063808 / 9780099063803

The Science Fiction Book Club ( UK ) - hardback - 1973
ISBN: none

Berkley Medallion - paperback - 1976
ISBN: 0425033805 / 9780425033807

Berkley - paperback - 1982
ISBN: 0425049884 / 9780425049884

Harvest - paperback - 1987
ISBN: 0156837501 / 9780156837507

Faber and Faber - trade paperback - 1991
ISBN: 0571162150 / 9780571162154

Faber and Faber - paperback - 2001
ISBN: 0571209483 / 9780571209484

Harvest Books - trade paperback - 2002
ISBN: 0156027607 / 9780156027601

Harvest Books / SFBC - trade paperback - 2003
ISBN: none

Faber and Faber - trade paperback - 2003
ISBN: 0571219721 / 9780571219728

BBC Audiobooks Ltd. - CD - 2008
ISBN: 140567752X / 9781405677523

BBC Audiobooks America - CD - 2010
ISBN: 1602838194 / 9781602838192

Audible Frontiers - audiobook - 2011
ASIN: B00550GOX2

Premier Digital Publishing - Kindle - 2011
ASIN: B006JWE0MC

omnibus edition ( Solaris - The Chain of Chance - A Perfect Vacuum )
King Penguin - trade paperback - 1981
ISBN: 0140055398 / 9780140055399

excerpt only;
Philosophy and Science Fiction
Prometheus Books - trade paperback - 1984
ISBN: 0879752483 / 9780879752484


synopsis
Solaris is a planet whose ocean is a vast amoeba-like brain. It creates structures and images that may indicate an intelligence, but all attempts to communicate with it have failed. When Kris Kelvin travels to Solaris he is confronted by a visitor from his past; a visitor that should not exist. Was this Solaris trying to communicate? Or, was it defending itself? Can we communicate with a species so different?

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In 1971 Solaris ( Solyaris ) was made into a movie by Soviet film producer Andrei Tarkovsky.

In 2002 there was an American re-make by Steven Soderbergh.