Solaris

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Solaris

film by Tarkovsky [1972]

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Stanisław Lem
The book was adapted for film by Soviet director Andrey Tarkovsky and won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972; a second adaptation, directed by Steven Soderbergh of the United States, was released in 2002. His Master’s Voice is another classic of traditional science fiction themes.…
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The book was adapted for film by Soviet director Andrey Tarkovsky and won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972; a second adaptation, directed by Steven Soderbergh of the United States, was released in 2002. His Master’s Voice is another classic of traditional science fiction themes.…
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Alien encounters
…Stanisław Lem’s Solaris (1961; films 1972 and 2002), the sentience on an alien planet is so metaphysically distant from humanity that it causes its cosmonaut investigators to hallucinate and collapse. The Solaris alien is a permanent enigma, completely unframable by any human thought process. Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity (1954)…
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…Stanisław Lem’s Solaris (1961; films 1972 and 2002), the sentience on an alien planet is so metaphysically distant from humanity that it causes its cosmonaut investigators to hallucinate and collapse. The Solaris alien is a permanent enigma, completely unframable by any human thought process. Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity (1954)…
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