I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation. Since she had gone, that was all that remained. I did not know what achievements, what mockery, even what tortures still awaited me. I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel…
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Psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at a research station orbiting the remote oceanic planet Solaris, only to find the scientific crew unhinged and secretive. Kelvin soon encounters physical apparitions formed from his most painful suppressed memories, generated by the planet's sentient, living plasma ocean. As Kelvin struggles with guilt and grief, the novel explores the insurmountable barriers to understanding true alien intelligence.
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We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.