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Arts and Letters Book Club Meeting - Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

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Time: March 7, 2013 from 8pm to 10pm
Location: Grandpa's
Street: Xikang HutongTheThe
City/Town: The Chun- sunshine city
Event Type: book, club, meeting
Organized By: Arts and Letters
Latest Activity: Mar 5, 2013

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Solaris (1961), by Stanisław Lem (1921–2006), is a Polish science fiction novel about the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species.

In probing and examining the oceanic surface of the world named Solaris from a hovering research station the oblivious human scientists are, in turn, being studied by the sentient planet itself. In due course, Solaris scientifically probes for and examines the secret, guilty thoughts of the human beings who are analyzing it. Solaris has the ability to manifest their secret, guilty concerns in human form, for each scientist to personally confront, while the self-aware planet studies their responses to its psychological experiments.

Solaris is pervaded by a powerful, poetic sense of the physical remoteness of outer space. The sense of loneliness that this engenders is among Lem’s philosophic explorations of man’s anthropomorphic limitations. First published in Warsaw in 1961, the 1970 Polish-to-French-to-English translation of Solaris is the best-known of Lem's English-translated works.

Stanislaw Lem-Official website: http://english.lem.pl/
Stanislaw Lem on Scriptorum: http://themodernword.com/scriptorium/lem.html
Study Guide for Solaris : http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/solaris.html
Lem's bibliography, other books and more links on Lem: http://homepages.rpi.edu/~sofkam/lem/index.html

If anyone needs a copy, I or Juan can e-mail a version in PDF format

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Comment by Rosanna Leggat on March 5, 2013 at 11:32: got that - still gonna be late ^.-

Comment by Richard Roman on March 4, 2013 at 14:30: I have sent a message round to everyone that the meeting will be on Thursday NOT Tuesday

Comment by Rosanna Leggat on March 4, 2013 at 14:04: gonna be late - like 8.30 maybe - so please try to not be too clever before i get there ^-^

Comment by Jack Field on February 12, 2013 at 16:35: Looking forward to it all the same.

Comment by Richard Roman on January 15, 2013 at 14:00: Apologies to everyone. due to a few regulars not being able to make it then we are putting this meeting back till after the Chinese New Year. Check the events board for new details

Comment by Downtown David - 白大伟 on January 13, 2013 at 16:40: yes, email me a copy

Comment by Richard Roman on January 3, 2013 at 10:11: If anyone wants a copy let me know as I can send you a PDF file. Don't know how to post it directly on this site

Comment by Richard Roman on December 22, 2012 at 20:33: Sharon - will post you a link tomorrow if I can

Comment by Sharon Rott on December 22, 2012 at 17:20: Looking for a pdf copy of the book.

Comment by Richard Roman on December 12, 2012 at 19:53: If anyone knows how to post a link to the actual book, please post it here. I now have a copy but cannot post as it is a download. Anyway, let me know if you want an English version - which I have.

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