The great thing about this book is that it's as much about the difficulty of trying to contact an alien as it is about the problems with the scientific process and academia.
Really a fantastic read with so many angles to interpret it from.
Re:Chernobyl's 'stalker' subculture
by playing_colours on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:27AM
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I would say Solaris is as much about dealing with regrets, a dull pain from deep wounds that follows us through our lives as it is about the things you mentioned.
I read it more than ten years ago, but still remember the emotional experience it brought.
The book is much more detailed than the films. For example, in the book they go down to the “surface” of the alien and visit it… more than once as I recall. That’s not in the films.