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Solaris

Stanislaw Lem

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1961
Originally in
Originally in Polish
Pages
Pages 210

A psychologist arrives at a station orbiting a planet whose living ocean reads his grief and rebuilds his dead wife beside him, solid and loving but unaware she is not real, and stays on after she is gone, still hoping for another visit.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors.
Solaris, Stanislaw Lem

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