Lem's Solaris: The Prize
By Péter MARTON
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Last year, in the European Science Fiction group on Facebook, we had a quiz series for which a prize is given out to the winner, and that prize is visible above.
As the founder of this community, I am very happy to report that the logistics of getting the brand new copy to its owner have by now been arranged.
As the founder of this community, I am very happy to report that the logistics of getting the brand new copy to its owner have by now been arranged.
This is the best choice I could think of, for the book prize, given worldwide awareness of Lem's work and also his genius that is on full display in Solaris.
The psychic ocean of the planet Solaris, an entity that cannot be conveniently anthropomorphised in the name of universal understanding, generates endless debates among scientists in the novel – this forms the background to the story in which a team of researchers grapples with the challenge of making sense of interactions with the ultimate, unfathomable Other. An Other that increasingly takes the initiative in this process, even as the reasons for this remain unclear...
The psychic ocean of the planet Solaris, an entity that cannot be conveniently anthropomorphised in the name of universal understanding, generates endless debates among scientists in the novel – this forms the background to the story in which a team of researchers grapples with the challenge of making sense of interactions with the ultimate, unfathomable Other. An Other that increasingly takes the initiative in this process, even as the reasons for this remain unclear...
The novel itself works just like the ocean in the story. It continues to generate discussions, interpretations, debates. Just what we seek to do here, too!
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