When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a long-dead lover.
An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes.
Written over a period of twenty years, this book features adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy.
The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena.
Scientists attempt to decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space.