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.
Rundt om planeten Solaris svæver en rumstation. Da videnskabsmanden Kris Kelvin ankommer for at studere det hav, der dækker dets overflade, møder han en fremmed verden med en egen bevidsthed,... Læs mere
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.