Book Club: Solaris - August 23rd

Our August Book Club selection, Solaris, is a novel that makes you reevaluate the nature of intelligence itself, by multi-award-winning Polish author Stanislaw Lem.

Solaris asks the question: Can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?

"Who's testing whom? When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. Scientists speculate that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, its purpose in doing so unknown."