Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

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Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Psychologist Kris has been sent on a mission to find out what has gone wrong on a distant space exploration station. On arrival, he finds the ship deserted apart from two scientists, both seemingly deranged. He wakes next day to find his long dead young wife Rheya, sitting at the end of his bed.
Solaris is about the ultimately futile attempt to communicate with an alien life-form. The planet, called Solaris, is covered with a so-called “ocean” that is really a single organism covering the entire surface. The ocean shows signs of a vast but strange intelligence, which can create physical phenomena in a way that science has difficulty explaining. The alien mind of Solaris is so inconceivably different from human consciousness that all attempts at communication seem doomed. The “alienness” of aliens was one of Lem’s favorite themes; he was scornful about portrayals of aliens as humanoid.
Publisher: BBC Radio 2007
MP3 44100Hz stereo 192Kbps
size = 158 MB 2cds

Disk 1

[Richard Austin]

Hi, Just about to download this audio version. What a great story, I've seen the early film version and I've bought the latest film version on DVD as well as seeing it at the cinema and I think both are fantastic. The music and special effects are stunning in the newer version. Richard

[Mike Hobart]

I want to listen to this one. I read the book many years ago, but I haven't seen either of the movie versions.

Lem was a friend of a friend of a friend.

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Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Disk 2