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challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
El hecho de que el ser humano tiende a antropomorfizar a seres extraterrestres definitivamente es un tema arraigado a la psique, tenemos aliens, monstruos, todos a nuestra escala, con nuestros sentimientos, mentalidad, características exactamente iguales a las de nosotros...
Este libro me hizo crear una concepción nueva de lo pequeños que somos los seres humanos, de lo egocéntricos que somos, ni siquiera nos conocemos a nosotros mismos y tratamos de investigar a otros seres, otros mundos.
El desarrollo es extremadamente exhaustivo, el autor definitivamente armó un sistema científico sobre el planeta Solaris que iba sobre mis capacidades mentales (I'm just a girl 🥹), pero eso pudo asentar mucho más el tema, explicaciones humanas a realidades fuera de nuestro control, más de cien años de libros sobre el planeta con teorías nada que ver.
Hay mucho que hablar sobre este libro! Eso me encantó, me hizo pensar sobre filosofía, sobre psicología y sobre mi historia como ser humano. Lo recomiendo si te gusta la ciencia ficción.
Este libro me hizo crear una concepción nueva de lo pequeños que somos los seres humanos, de lo egocéntricos que somos, ni siquiera nos conocemos a nosotros mismos y tratamos de investigar a otros seres, otros mundos.
El desarrollo es extremadamente exhaustivo, el autor definitivamente armó un sistema científico sobre el planeta Solaris que iba sobre mis capacidades mentales (I'm just a girl 🥹), pero eso pudo asentar mucho más el tema, explicaciones humanas a realidades fuera de nuestro control, más de cien años de libros sobre el planeta con teorías nada que ver.
Hay mucho que hablar sobre este libro! Eso me encantó, me hizo pensar sobre filosofía, sobre psicología y sobre mi historia como ser humano. Lo recomiendo si te gusta la ciencia ficción.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood
Moderate: Sexism
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
The more I think about this book the more I appreciate it. This book is morphologically similar to blindsight but I felt blindsight did a better job with its cosmic horror philosophy sci-fi reveal. Blindsight also portrayed its females characters slightly more normally. Sightly.
I realize Solaris is a product of its time but the portrayal of the women characters was sometimes difficult to read. Removed one star.
I loved the horror and suspense at the beginning and was sad when it turned into exposition by the middle of the book.
I realize Solaris is a product of its time but the portrayal of the women characters was sometimes difficult to read. Removed one star.
I loved the horror and suspense at the beginning and was sad when it turned into exposition by the middle of the book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexism, Suicide
Minor: Racism
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I started listening to this audiobook alongside the paperback that I was given by my brother about 20 years ago. The translation is different and it was kind of fun until I gave up because my eyes were causing me issues (the reason I predominantly listen to Audiobooks). Each paragraph meant basically the same thing, but the wording was slightly different, which felt a bit like reading subtitles when they don't quite match how I interpret the original language. Fun.. but a bit exhausting.
Out in the vastness of space there is most likely intelligent life, and this is the story of what happens when humans encounter alien life so vast and different to our own that communicating with it, or even being noticed by it, becomes a spur for entirely new fields of science and philosophy. The premise of the plot is that instead of life developing, pluralising, and leaving the ocean, it has stayed in the ocean and become it, organising into what appears to act like one ever-seething organism. This organism extrudes matter from itself in forms that scientists have been observing for decades, trying to make sense of the ever changing landscape.
When Kris Kelvin lands on Solaris, only to be told that his once mentor has recently died, he has to figure out what is going on. When he runs into another person, who should not be there, walking in the corridor, he starts to understand the warning of his fellow who begged him not to engage with any strangers.
This story is at times spooky, horrific and maddening, and lumbers at a frustrating pace through hypotheses and tests, as the scientists try to figure out the shapes and human forms that the planet is making for them, that (in Bradbury-esque fashion) seem to be patterned on their own deepest memories. Together they try to overcome their own stress and cabin-fever, and strive to understand the nature of, and perhaps communicate with, the life-form of the planet.
In the discussion of morality, spirituality and godforms, it doesn't escape me that they speak of humans being limited by our animal perceptions of the environment around us, so that perhaps the only type of life we can truly communicate with has to be human-like. Is the life on Solaris trying to interact with humans by sending humanlike synthetic things, or are we again in a trap of anthropomorphising and presuming that our own mythologies are fact?..
Out in the vastness of space there is most likely intelligent life, and this is the story of what happens when humans encounter alien life so vast and different to our own that communicating with it, or even being noticed by it, becomes a spur for entirely new fields of science and philosophy. The premise of the plot is that instead of life developing, pluralising, and leaving the ocean, it has stayed in the ocean and become it, organising into what appears to act like one ever-seething organism. This organism extrudes matter from itself in forms that scientists have been observing for decades, trying to make sense of the ever changing landscape.
When Kris Kelvin lands on Solaris, only to be told that his once mentor has recently died, he has to figure out what is going on. When he runs into another person, who should not be there, walking in the corridor, he starts to understand the warning of his fellow who begged him not to engage with any strangers.
This story is at times spooky, horrific and maddening, and lumbers at a frustrating pace through hypotheses and tests, as the scientists try to figure out the shapes and human forms that the planet is making for them, that (in Bradbury-esque fashion) seem to be patterned on their own deepest memories. Together they try to overcome their own stress and cabin-fever, and strive to understand the nature of, and perhaps communicate with, the life-form of the planet.
In the discussion of morality, spirituality and godforms, it doesn't escape me that they speak of humans being limited by our animal perceptions of the environment around us, so that perhaps the only type of life we can truly communicate with has to be human-like. Is the life on Solaris trying to interact with humans by sending humanlike synthetic things, or are we again in a trap of anthropomorphising and presuming that our own mythologies are fact?..
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexism, Alcohol
