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Content levels
ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone
Trigger warnings
Mental ManipulationGriefPsychological Horror
Positive tags
MysterySelf-Discovery
Tropes
First ContactAlien IntelligencePsychological HorrorIsolationUnreliable Narrator
Themes
ConnectionConsciousnessAliennessMemory and TraumaHuman LimitationsExistential HorrorThe Unknowable
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.
Tags
Philosophical SFHard Science FictionPsychological ThrillerLiterary SF