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Solaris

by Stanislaw Lem(1961)
translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox(1970)

Version 1.0


CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 The Arrival
CHAPTER 2 The Solarists
CHAPTER 3 The Visitors
CHAPTER 4 Sartorius
CHAPTER 5 Rheya
CHAPTER 6 "The Little Apocrypha"
CHAPTER 7 The Conference
CHAPTER 8 The Monsters
CHAPTER 9 The Liquid Oxygen
CHAPTER 10 Conversation
CHAPTER 11 The Thinkers
CHAPTER 12 The Dreams
CHAPTER 13 Victory
CHAPTER 14 The Old Mimoid




1 THE ARRIVAL

At 19.00 hours, ship's time, I made my way to the launching bay. The men
around the shaft stood aside to let me pass, and I climbed down into the
capsule.
Inside the narrow cockpit, there was scarcely room to move. I attached
the hose to the valve on my spacesuit and it inflated rapidly. From then on,
I was incapable of making the smallest movement. There I stood, or rather
hung suspended, enveloped in my pneumatic suit and yoke to the metal hull.
I looked up; through the transparent canopy I could see a smooth,
polished wall and, far above, Moddard's head leaning over the top of the
shaft. He vanished, and suddenly I was plunged in darkness: the heavy
protective cone had been lowered into place. Eight times I heard the hum of
the electric motors which turned the screws, followed by the hiss of the
shock-absorbers. As my eyes grew accustomed to the dark, I could see the
luminous circle of the solitary dial.
A voice echoed in my headphones:
"Ready Kelvin?"
"Ready, Moddard," I answered.
"Don't worry about a thing. The Station will pick you up in flight.
Have a good trip!"
There was a grinding noise and the capsule swayed. My muscles tensed in