In the novel and in Tarkovsky’s adaptation, Dr. Kris Kelvin arrives at the space station to help his colleagues Gibarian, Sartorius, and Snaut discover what lies inside the ocean planet Solaris.

To provide mirrors which help to expose and challenge the closed, patriarchal minds of Solaris’s futuristic knights, Lem emphasizes gender-suggestive metaphoric figures, including an ocean-like alien ...

Lem transports readers to some time in the future. The distant planet Solaris is covered by a living sentient ocean – more precisely, this intelligent ocean appears to be the only inhabitant of the ...