Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, Steve Cox (Translator), Joanna Kilmartin (Translator)
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- Pub. Date: November 2002
- 204pp
- Sales Rank: 73,690
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: November 2002
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Format: Paperback, 204pp
- Sales Rank: 73,690
- ISBN-13: 9780156027601
- ISBN: 0156027607
Synopsis
The first of Lem’s novels to be published in americanca and still the best known. A scientist examining the ocean that covers the surface of the planet Solaris is forced to confront the incarnation of a painful, hitherto unconscious memory, inexplicably created by the ocean. An undisputed SF classic. Translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox.
Biography
Stanislaw Lem, a Polish author, is the best known and most widely translated science fiction writer outside the English-speaking world. His nearly thirty books have been translated into thirty-six languages and have sold twenty million copies worldwide. Lem's other works include The Cyberiad, The Futurological Congress, Peace on Earth, Mortal Engines, and Tales of Pirx the Pilot, all available in English-language translations from Harvest.
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March 17, 2004: The universe, as we know it, is far more complex, beautiful and horrific than we can ever imagine. Makes you want to reach out and touch a star and find out.
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September 21, 2003: In the original Pygmallion story, the king seeks to transform a statue of a beautiful girl into a human being. Lem went further: what would happen if the idealised/idolised woman from your past memories came to life? Does it really equal happiness? Unfortunately, we do not know if King Pygmallion found his happiness in his stone-turned-to-sweetheart, but Lem seems to be pessimistic in this question: dreamers need dreaming and not dreams come true. Of course, the book deals with a lot of other interesting issues of the human soul. He knows that the unconscious is the sea and the conscious part is only a small boat travelling or tossing on its waves. The only minus is that the book was translated from French and not from the original Polish.
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