![]() ![]() ![]() Kris arrives to find the Solaris station looking like a high-tech frat house after a wild party dirty, disorganized and rundown, much like Snow and Sartorius, who keep to themselves in their quarters. Kris finds the lights are on, but (almost) nobody’s home… Much of the book is told in the first person by Kris himself. Reports from the station in the past few years have become both disturbing and infrequent, with the three remaining crew, Gibarian, Sartorius and Snow, offering no enlightenments of their own. Space psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to check on the research space station Solaris, orbiting a same-named planet somewhere in the constellation of Aquarius. Kris Kelvin’s brisk flight to the Solaris space station opens Lem’s novel it doesn’t happen until about 40-odd minutes into Tarkovsky’s 1972 film. Having seen two filmed versions, I found that the essential story survives (with unique modifications) in both of its big screen incarnations. ![]() I picked up a copy (translated into English from French) and read it over a few days. ![]() Spawning a lengthy, 1972 Soviet-era sci-fi epic (2 hours, 49 minutes) and a trimmer American reimagining 30 years later, it’s surprised me to learn that Polish sci-fi author Stanislaw Lem’s original 1961 novel “Solaris” is a brisk read (204 pages), despite its deep subject matter. The Essentials of Stanislaw Lem’s Story (1961). ![]()
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