Solaris by Stanisław Lem
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Great landscape descriptions. I know that sounds like a boring compliment, but I think it’s hard to be the author who can do this and also good philosophical musing.
This is one of those more psychological and brooding sci-fi books. I love that there are a bunch of mysteries that he doesn’t solve. Or even try to help us solve. Or even hint that they might ever be solved. It’s a mysterious universe we’re in, and it’s never going to be anything else.
My one quibble is that it seems like maybe a junior editor dropped the chapters and mixed up the order? It’s things like how we don’t know what the main character is even doing on the space station until at least halfway through the book.
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