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"Constantly, it seemed, the experts were on the brink of deciphering the ever-growing mass of information ... the scientists [were convinced] that they were confronted with a monstrous entity endowed with reason, a protoplasmic ocean-brain enveloping the entire planet."
--Solaris, Stanislaw Lem (1961)
In the novel Solariz, by the Polish science-fiction novelist Stanislaw Lem, who died this year, scientists have spent years studying the eponymous planet. Working on a space station that hovers just above Solaris, they have elaborated an intricate system of nomenclature about the planet (when the novel starts, the official bibliography of Solaris studies runs to some 1,500 pages) but they have never have been able to achieve consensus about what it means.
In a lecture he gave recently about the genre of science fiction at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin,... |
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