Terran scientists conjecture it is a living and a sentient being, and attempt to communicate with it. The planet is almost completely covered with an ocean of gel that is revealed to be a single, planet-encompassing entity. Solaris chronicles the ultimate futility of attempted communications with the extraterrestrial life inhabiting a distant alien planet named Solaris. Prominent film adaptations include Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 version and Steven Soderbergh's 2002 version, although Lem later remarked that none of these films reflected the book's thematic emphasis on the limitations of human rationality. The book has been adapted numerous times for film, radio, and theater. The novel is one of Lem's best-known works. It follows a crew of scientists on a research station as they attempt to understand an extraterrestrial intelligence, which takes the form of a vast ocean on the titular alien planet. Solaris is a 1961 science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem.
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