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	Solaris (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Solaris is a science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem, published in Warsaw in 1961.
		The novel is about the ultimately futile attempt to communicate with an alien life-form on a distant planet.
		The alien mind of Solaris is so inconceivably different from human consciousness that all attempts at communication are doomed (the "alienness" of aliens is one of Lem's favourite themes; he is scornful about portrayals of aliens as implausibly humanoid).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solaris_(novel) (598 words)

	Solaris (novel)
		Solaris is a science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, published in Warsaw in 1961.
		The novel is about a scientific expedition to a distant planet with an "ocean" that is really a single planet-sized organism, showing signs of vast but strange intelligence.
		Solaris is considered by some to be Lem's greatest novel.
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	Encyclopedia: Solaris (novel)
		At that point, research on Solaris has been going on for years, but researchers have been able to do little more than observe the various highly complex phenomena on the surface of the ocean, classifying them into an elaborate nomenclature, without the slightest conjecture about their meaning.
		Solaris is often cited as a Russian answer to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but this is actually untrue, since Tarkovsky had not seen 2001 before he made the film, and after he had himself referred to it as "cold and sterile".
		Some film guides, such as Time Out, have falsely claimed Solaris to be a socialist answer to 2001, but this is demonstrably not so, since the film's uncertainty about life and the future is in direct conflict with the Marxist idea of a mechanistic theory of history and humanity, and with the Soviet government's prognostications.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Solaris-(novel) (1457 words)

	Solaris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Solaris (DC comics), a supervillain in the DC Universe
		Solaris Bus and Coach, a producer of buses, trolleybuses and coaches from Poznan, Poland
		Solaris (society), name of the cabinet of Medical Society, Hong Kong University Student Union, 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solaris (209 words)

	2001; Solaris
		Solaris (in the film, not the novel) is a bizarre planet surrounded by plasma currents and energy discharges.
		In the novel, Solaris is covered by an ocean of a fluid-like substance that has been intensively studied for a hundred years without much success.
		Nevertheless, by the end of the novel the characters come to be convinced that the ability to create the Visitors, possibly from neutrinos, shows clearly that the ocean has consciousness and is at least able to comprehend human minds.
	www.uwgb.edu /dutchs/PSEUDOSC/ATMOVIE2001.HTM (3692 words)

	Solaris (novel): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Solaris (novel)
		A novel by Stanislaw Lem, published in Warsaw in 1961.
		It was adapted into to a film in the late 1970s and 2002 (see Solaris (movie)).
		The novel is about a scientific investigation on a planet with a strange ocean, which turns out to be, possibily, alive.
	www.encyclopedian.com /so/Solaris-(novel).html (90 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Solaris (Faber Fiction Classics S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Solaris is set, whether you are reading it now or when it was first published in 1961, at least 150 years in the future and is the story of Kris Kelvin, who travels to the space station orbiting the planet Solaris to prepare a report on the activities and future of the station.
		Solaris is a planet where the only living organism is the ocean which covers its surface, and which expresses itself in ways ineffable to man and from which he is constantly trying to take meaning.
		What I liked about Solaris was the stately, unhurried pacing, rather like a Shyamalan film; and the matching dispassionate prose, which may have been deliberate or just the result of a combination of Lem's stoical eastern European stylings and the artificial sense of distance that is always a feature of literature in translation.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571209483 (1296 words)

	ShinyGun \| Solaris, the Novel.
		Solaris is the very best of Lem's adventure novels, and among his most brilliant and genuinely terrifying thought experiments.
		Solaris is a novel that defies classification as much as the ocean flouts understanding.
		The scope of the novel is easy to miss for its brevity, the human tragedy unfolding for its dense academic theorizing, the moral lesson for its terrifying tone, the gorgeous prose for its quest for answers.
	www.shinygun.com /print.php?id=80 (2068 words)

	Study Guide for Stanislaw Lem: Solaris (1961)
		The novel begins as the narrator, a scientist named Kris Kelvin, is descending toward the surface of the mysterious planet Solaris.
		The ability of Solaris to control its own orbit anticipates some of the wilder fantasies built on the "Gaia hypothesis," according to which Earth has the ability to maintain conditions favorable to life.
		Solaris' ability to remodel the instruments created to study it resembles quantum physics' uncertainty principle: studying subatomic particles affects their behavior in ways that make it impossible to separate the observer from the observation.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/science_fiction/solaris.html (2519 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, SOLARIS (1972)
		SOLARIS has often been referred to as the "Russian 2001"—probably due to the fact that it was released just a few short years after Stanley Kubrick's landmark film, and perhaps also because it deals with an encounter with a truly alien intelligence.
		SOLARIS is based on a novel of the same name by Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, first published in 1961 in Polish and translated for English publication in 1970.
		SOLARIS is a fascinating film that delves deep into the heart of what it means to be human and what our place is in the universe.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews2/solaris.html (1438 words)

	Vitrifax: On Stanislaw Lem - Solaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Solaris is a planet covered with a mysterious ocean that seems to be a single living organism.
		Once Kelvin actually gets to Solaris, though, the action hews more or less precisely to the plot of the novel (until the last scene, which is an ingenious improvement on Lem's ending), and the production design stunningly recreates the grandiose decrepitude of the station.
		The dialogue seems to be taken almost verbatim from the novel (or as verbatim as a translation can be), but since the English subtitles of the version I've seen are somewhat fragmentary, and are of course a double translation via Russian, once again Lem's prose is somewhat buried for the English-speaking viewer.
	world.std.com /~mmcirvin/solaris.html (1354 words)

	The Underview and 2001: Andre Tarkovsky's Solaris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Solaris was billed in the west as "Russia's answer to 2001", which while useful in gaining an audience may have been a mistake in the same way as 2010 being marketed as the "solution" to 2001.
		Solaris addresses full- on the implications hinted at, but not explicitly confirmed, in 2001: that an alien life force is able to conjure a physically- tangible environment from Dave's unspoken thoughts.
		Solaris, in the end, is a man's story, but by that means we also learn something of the burdens often carried by women.
	www.underview.com /2001/solaris.html (6470 words)

	Solaris (Solyaris) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Solaris are both about a head-on collision between extra-terrestrial life and humanity, the two films' treatments of technology could not be more divergent.
		Solaris both imply a higher power at work, in Kubrick’s universe it is a foregone conclusion that humankind will be assimilated by Artificial Intelligence; any suspense aboard the S.S. Discovery revolves around this interplay.
		He is convinced that Solaris’ ocean, which blankets the majority of the planet, is sentient, and recommends to his superiors that it be bombarded with X-rays.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies5/Solaris.htm (708 words)

	Personal Space - Solaris is Steven Soderbergh's ravishing lament for lost love. By David Edelstein
		The second adaptation of a 1961 novel by the prolific Polish writer Stanislaw Lem, the movie is wondrously strange.
		In that way, Solaris is a kind of sequel to Soderbergh's great The Limey (1999), with its pretzeled syntax, its endless looping back to the moment in which a loved one's future death could be ordained.
		Kelvin relives the same kinds of moments, except that Soderbergh in Solaris can bring the past literally to life: a past that can't be buried or cast off, that is destined to rise and rise again like the curly wisps of vapor from the oceans of Solaris.
	www.slate.com /?id=2074623 (2077 words)

	Edward Balcerzan- Seeking only Man: Language and Ethics in Solaris
		It would be futile to seek a place for Solaris in the topography of Polish postwar prose; the critical pointers are negative: lack of contexts, absence of narrative forms corresponding to the order of development, a kind of "uprootedness" of the novel as a whole.
		Reading Lem's novel we feel that all the crises, rebellions, seasonal dictatorships and similar eruptions which continually destroyed and re-formed the narrative art did not manage to violate the essential identity of the genre: the story has remained the story.
		The "old" novel embodied its vision of the world in a language which was maximally self-assured, unambiguous and translucent.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/6/balcerzan6art.htm (2738 words)

	Review: Solaris (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Solaris may be the first big budget science fiction motion picture that belongs in an art house rather than a multiplex.
		Solaris is based on the novel by Stanisalw Lem, which was first brought to the screen in 1972 by Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.
		Solaris is neither as effective nor as ambitious as Kubrick's masterpiece, but it's still a compelling cinematic experience for those who are willing to abandon themselves to the unforced, measured rhythms of an issues-based motion picture.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/s/solaris2002.html (705 words)

	2002: A Space Oddity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While acknowledging Tarkovsky’s austere aesthetic, Soderbergh’s Solaris is based primarily on the Polish author Stanislaw Lem's eponymous 1961 novel.
		Briefly summarised, the novel centres on an emotionally withdrawn psychologist named Kelvin who is sent to investigate the bizarre behaviour of a group of scientists based on a space station orbiting the planet Solaris.
		Indeed, while it could be argued that Tarkovsky suffocated a number of the novel’s strongest ideas with painfully glacial pacing and an overbearing air of pointlessness, Soderbergh’s more succinct interpretation might give those ideas a sharper and more immediate expression.
	fp.ignatz.plus.com /2002space.htm (1092 words)

	Special Circumstances: Science Fiction Archives
		In this novel, in a fictional setting she makes an attempt to realize in fiction the reality of how traditional philosophy such as Daoism became almost immediately irrelevant to the country that gave rise to these ideas and how popular thought was transformed in the space of a few years during the Cultural Revolution.
		In this novel, James White also provides a story of environmental collapse due to the ignorance of a sentient species on a planet which is unaware of the existence or the negative effect it has been having on the other sentient species on their planet.
		In this novel, there are many heroes, both male and female, one is young and heroic, one is a wild-eyed inventor, one is a weary prisoner-of-war and one is a very old hacker with a Napoleon complex.
	www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/cat_science_fiction.html (20242 words)

	Solaris (1972) - A Review by David Nusair
		Solaris is one of those classics that virtually every critic will assure you is amazing, but when you get right down to it, the film's nothing but a pretentious mess.
		And, of course, there's the storyline - featuring the mysterious Solaris and the supernatural effect is seems to have on people - which is undeniably quite intriguing, but rendered frustratingly obtuse by Tarkovsky's heavy-handed style.
		Steven Soderbergh's recent remake of Lem's novel is so much more effective in so many ways, it's a wonder that this version of Solaris still receives any acclaim at all.
	www.reelfilm.com /solyaris.htm (537 words)

	Stanistlav Lem Solaris
		In Solaris, the novel, Gibarian, sums up the problem of understanding Solaris’ motives by stating: “When there are no men, there cannot be motives accessible to man.” Gibarian’s visit, sadly, is perhaps the only moment in the movie that resonates with Lem’s original idea.
		Solaris is one of Lem's early works of mature science fiction, differing significantly in focus from the Russian film based upon it and perhaps totally unrelated to Sun Microsystems' Unix.
		The planet, which itself is called Solaris, has been studied by science for generations and a large part of the book is concerned with a form of literature review, telling the history of the highs and lows in that research and relating dozens of theories generated through the decades.
	www.softpanorama.org /Solaris/stanislav_lem_solaris.shtml (9816 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Solaris: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the contrary, it is a tale with many beauties: the evocative descriptions of the effects of the blue and red light from Solaris's twin suns; the ballet of generation and decay and regeneration enacted by the amazing mimoids, symmetriads and asymmetriads; and the development of the strange love between Kelvin and Rheya.
		As always with the finest genre fiction, Solaris transcends the stylings and tropes of SF and proves to be a compelling, highly readable classic of world fiction.
		What I liked about Solaris was the stately, unhurried pacing, rather like a Shyamalan film; and the matching dispassionate prose, which may have been deliberate or just the result of a combination of Lem's stoical eastern European stylings and the artifical sense of distance that is always a feature of literature in translation.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571219721 (1752 words)

	solaris
		Lem's Solaris is rebellious or at the least resists archetypal resolutions, in that the writer by design is going to initiate classic and other motifs--such as the ghost story--just so he can expose them as facades placed in motion by confrontations with the what is alien--this is the big think philosophy of the story.
		In the end, the novel will achieve resolution or it will not; a quest for peace will be achieved or lost--this will be one of the final questions we will ask.
		Paul Brians suggests that the novel is a satire of the process of scientific research.
	www.wsu.edu /~hughesc/solaris.html (1776 words)

	Solaris
		Loosely based on the well-known novel by Stanislaw Lem (and remade by Steven Soderbergh), the film begins with the countryside reverie of scientist Chris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis), a scientist sent to investigate the strange occurrences plaguing the Solaris mission.
		The framework of Lem's novel allows a flowing series of meditations on man's emotional nature and his often dangerous ties to the past, while the actors perform their often challenging roles with exquisite restraint and intensity.
		Long unavailable on video in the U.S., Solaris received a long overdue theatrical reissue in its complete form during the 1980s and was issued on VHS and (in a more accurately letterboxed rendition) on laserdisc by Fox Lorber.
	www.mondo-digital.com /solaris.html (805 words)

	Amazon.com: Solaris: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Solaris is a planet, capable of materializing the earth peoples reminiscences about their home which they left on Earth and their relatives who had died long ago.
		The Solaris Ocean is a gigantic live brain whose riddle the films protagonists are trying to solve.
		Solaris, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, is a unusual piece of science fiction that will require multiple viewings and an open mind to understand all that it has to offer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002995HS?v=glance (1020 words)

	Wojciech Kajtoch Homepage - Historia Literatur Obcych (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		“Solaris”, “Powrót z gwiazd” (“Return from the Stars”), “Pamiętnik znaleziony w wannie” (“Memoirs Found in the Bathtub”) and “Księga robotów” (”Book of the Robots”) were all published in 1961: a year which was crucial for the way Lem exists in the Polish literary life.
		This hypothesis can be also warranted by a theoretical analysis of the novel, as “Solaris” is based on the typical structures of SF genre, where all puzzles should be (and usually are) explainable and explained.
		It is thanks to those analyses (and not fantastic elements), that “Solaris” can be easily classified as a novel written in the early 1960s.Making an attempt to formally refresh the genre, Lem identified all modern prose with the French existentialist anti-novel (anyway, this was quite understandable in that period).
	republika.pl /wkajt/solaris.htm (7559 words)

	Solaris Reviews
		SOLARIS (Fox Home Entertainment): This American remake of the classic Soviet science fiction epic, based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem, drew mixed reaction when released in 2002.
		SOLARIS (director/writer/cinematographer/editor: Steven Soderbergh; screenwriter: based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem; music: Cliff Martinez; cast: George Clooney (Chris Kelvin), Natascha McElhone (Rheya Kelvin), Jeremy Davies (Snow), Viola Davis...
		The second adaptation of the novel by Stanislaw Lem is much shorter than the Tarkovsky version and only a bit lighter,...
	www.killermovies.com /s/solaris/reviews (496 words)

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