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The thinking ocean in Solaris

Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. A vast ocean covers an imagined alien planet with a small research station for scale; the scene evokes the uncertain possible intelligence of Solaris’s ocean.
AI-generated conceptual illustration of complex patterns in Solaris’s ocean, suggesting responses while leaving its nature unknown.
Archival photograph of Andrei Tarkovsky and crew on the set of *Solaris* in Moscow, 1972; photographer Valentin Mastyukov, Main Archive of Moscow (Mos.ru), CC BY 4.0. Attribution: Main Archive of Moscow (Mos.ru), photographer Valentin Mastyukov, CC BY 4.0. [Original](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrey_Tarkovsky_on_crew_of_Solaris.jpg); [institutional source](https://www.mos.ru/news/item/154431073/). Copied unchanged from checked package #1717.
portrait of Lem, 1966, with mechanical toy and books; courtesy of secretary Wojciech Zemek. Lem estate permission; CC BY-SA 3.0. Attribution: Stanisław Lem / courtesy Wojciech Zemek / CC BY-SA 3.0. [Original](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem.jpg).
portrait by Mariusz Kubik, 2005; CC BY 2.5. Attribution: Mariusz Kubik / CC BY 2.5. [Original](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanislaw_Lem_by_Kubik.JPG).
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Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. A vast ocean covers an imagined alien planet with a small research station for scale; the scene evokes the uncertain possible intelligence of Solaris’s ocean.

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In Stanisław Lem’s novel *Solaris*, scientists try to make contact with a vast ocean covering the planet of the same name and possibly possessing intelligence. The ocean responds to humans, but its nature and intentions are difficult to understand. Boris Strugatsky included the novel among the ten best works of science fiction.