Still, the terror of this is nothing when compared to the terror Kelvin feels when he realizes these memories are created by the planet they are standing on. Kelvin is shaken to his core when out of nowhere, his mind is intruded by a new or suppressed memory of his old lover who has been long since dead. The story kicks off with astronomer/scientist Kris Kelvin landing on the planet of Solaris which is covered in an ocean with no mass of land that can be seen. We are keen to imagine aliens as distorted humans or animals yet could not they very well be completely unfamiliar?
He considers the possibility of other living forms in the universe being inherently different from us.
It revolves around the concept of discovering extraterrestrial life and it does so in a completely unique way. We are starting this list with the most renowned and the best selling one of Stanislaw Lem books. Most of his work is presented in the form of science fiction but his portfolio also includes essays and non-fiction philosophy pieces. The speculative side of his work is usually handled within space-related technological concepts and the parts that I deemed reflective are mainly about the condition of intelligence and interpersonal communication. This only got worse after 1941 as his province was taken over by NAZI Germany due to his Jewish family. The Russian Revolution was a big source of hardship for him as he was from a family that was considered bourgeois. The same area is today known as Lviv and is currently fought over between Russia and Ukraine. He was born in 1921’s Lwów, in the middle of a war between his province’s proprietor Poland and Russia.
Of course, he is not as boring of an author as to only write about these but they are the selling point of his work. Combining these two topics of interest, Stanislaw Lem usually writes speculative as well as reflective writings concerning both our day and the future that awaits us. The author I will be going over the works of in this writing is the Polish science-fiction and philosophy writer Stanislaw Lem.
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