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In the far future, a weird , make that incomprehensible planet resides in an entity which seems at first glance a gigantic ocean covering the whole world except for a few islands. However looks as we know can be deceiving and definitely this applies here. Solaris the name we gave it without permission and for a century humans study without finding out much. An alien creature or an unthinking monstrous behemoth ? A huge space station orbits the sphere just above the turbulence, the enormous waves rising as a new scientist arrives carrying more than knowledge , Dr.Kris Kelvin joining the crew. Since only a trio of men compromise the spacecraft's inhabitants, a fourth will hardly be noticed. He isn't, to the annoyance of Kelvin...why the strange reception? A structure many light- years from Earth, you'd think they'd welcome a new face and since the newcomer is also a psychologist this should help in the remote and isolated section of space. The Dr.'s... Snow is the friendliest but mostly unseen except by phone images. Sartorius quite reclusive just a voice on a machine and the third Gibarian who can't be located , a mystery nobody will talk about. Solaris has fascinated the people of Terra for a long time, yet this has decreased and some have urged leaving the place , as the countless investigations were fruitless...The eerie atmosphere of the passageways creeps in , things unreal appear maybe, a ghostly image of Kelvin's dead wife Rheya materializes and he feels guilty about her suicide...a lonely man, the feelings unabated after a decade, yes the shrink need one too. This obviously is less a science-fiction novel about extraterrestrials than psychological fiction...more Freud, not Asimov. My first Stanislaw Lem book but not the last. If you want a change of pace this classic will make you think of concepts which might make you uncomfortable however it is never dull. The cerebral story of the nature of being human and the difficulties of living...