"0156027607" . . . "204"^^ . . . . "10072735" . . "891.8/537 19" . "PG7158.L392 Z53 1985" . "Solaris"@en . "Solaris is a 1961 Polish philosophical science fiction novel by Stanis\u0142aw Lem. The book centers upon the themes of the nature of human memory, experience and the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species.In probing and examining the oceanic surface of the planet Solaris from a hovering research station the human scientists are, in turn, being studied by the sentient planet itself, which probes for and examines the thoughts of the human beings who are analyzing it."@en .