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Solaris / Stanisław Lem ; translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox ; afterword by Darko Suvin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lem, Stanisław.
- Series:
- Berkley science fiction
- Standardized Title:
- Solaris. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Life on other planets--Fiction.
- Life on other planets.
- Human-alien encounters--Fiction.
- Human-alien encounters.
- Science fiction, Polish.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1971.
- Summary:
- A science fiction novel about a sentient ocean that was the ruling intelligence of Solaris. Its vast mindand enigmatic personality exerted a powerful force on those humans who contacted it. And to Kris Kelvin, a galactic researcher from Earth, it had presented a strange and awesome gift ...
- Notes:
- Berkley Medallion edition: December 1971.
- Cover art by Paul Lehr.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 31010
- ISBN:
- 0425033805
- 9780425033807
- 0425049884
- 9780425049884
- OCLC:
- 2710066
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