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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.
Contributor:
Kilmartin, Joanna, translator.
Suvin, Darko, 1930- writer of afterword.
Cox, Steve, 1961- translator.
Lehr, Paul, illustrator.
Mark B. Adams Science Fiction Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
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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