I read this for the first time last year, the English translation by Bill Johnson. Never seen any of the adaptations.
I wouldn’t say I love this book. I will say that I was captivated by it. I read that, with the planet ocean, Lem was trying to describe something truly alien. How could you not agree that he succeeded? The ocean’s inscrutable motives, if you could say the ocean had motivation at all, and actions were so fucking bizarre. I loved that.
I think a lot of sci-fi authors and filmmakers try to do this. The Engineers in Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise come to mind. But there’s some sense of human logic to what they do. Some others that get close might be Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer and Blindside by Peter Watts.
I read this for the first time last year, the English translation by Bill Johnson. Never seen any of the adaptations.
I wouldn’t say I love this book. I will say that I was captivated by it. I read that, with the planet ocean, Lem was trying to describe something truly alien. How could you not agree that he succeeded? The ocean’s inscrutable motives, if you could say the ocean had motivation at all, and actions were so fucking bizarre. I loved that.
I think a lot of sci-fi authors and filmmakers try to do this. The Engineers in Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise come to mind. But there’s some sense of human logic to what they do. Some others that get close might be Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer and Blindside by Peter Watts.