LEM, Stanislaw.

£1,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Solaris. First edition in English. Set on the Solaris space station and told from the perspective of astronaut-psychologist Kris Kelvin, the novel is considered a classic work of philosophical science fiction. Originally published in 1961 in Polish, the book was adapted in into the 1972 film of the same name by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.The first UK edition was published the following year by Faber.

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