Book Review - Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

At first blush, Stanislaw Lem's science fiction novel Solaris is a story about pain, guilt, and repression. On another level, it details the impossibility and frustration of trying to communicate with entities that are not human.
I think Solaris is also about the desperation certain individuals feel in their quest to dominate everything around them because they cannot control themselves. It also reveals the inevitable resistance that results when one seeks to conquer that which (and possibly whom) they cannot understand.

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