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I mean… Solaris is amazing and was made into a film at least twice. The book is about the difficulties communicating with an alien in the vein of Arrival, but i
by TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
I mean… Solaris is amazing and was made into a film at least twice. The book is about the difficulties communicating with an alien in the vein of Arrival, but it predates Arrival by many years and is a better book, in my humble opinion.
The book is much more detailed than the films. For example, in the book they go down to the “surface” of the alien and visit it… more than once as I recall. That’s not in the films.
- renjimen 5y agoThe great thing about this book is that it's as much about the difficulty of trying to contact an alien as it is about the problems with the scientific process and academia. Really a fantastic read with so many angles to interpret it from.
- playing_colours 5y agoI would say Solaris is as much about dealing with regrets, a dull pain from deep wounds that follows us through our lives as it is about the things you mentioned. I read it more than ten years ago, but still remember the emotional experience it brought.