Secretly, Rheya plots with Snow to arrange her suicide.

Kelvin and Rheya live together in a fantasy world, planning their return to Earth and their life together, but they both know in their hearts that it is only a dream. After a couple of weeks, there is a strange storm in the ocean. At first, there does not seem to be any reaction, but Kelvin begins to experience weird and indescribable dreams. Ultimately, the scientists decide to beam X-rays carrying a recording of the electrical impulses in Kelvin's brain into the ocean. Kelvin secretly vows to try to save Rheya at all costs. The other scientists want to find a way to permanently destroy the visitors, who differ from human beings at the subatomic level. When Rheya finds out that she is only a duplicate of the 'real' Rheya, and not truly human, she tries to kill herself, but her body regenerates. After ejecting one version of Rheya into space, Kelvin resolves to stay and live with this imitation of Rheya-a woman he still deeply loves. Rheya herself does not know that she is not real. Kelvin is at first horrified, and he begins to realize that for some unknown reason, through some unknown mechanism, Solaris's ocean is creating these visitors.

Soon, Kelvin is visited by his own 'ghost', an exact duplicate of Rheya, the girl he once loved, who killed herself when he walked out on her. They look human, but they have superhuman abilities. Mysterious creatures haunt the spaceship. He finds the space station in disarray and the scientists on the verge of madness. Kelvin travels to Solaris only to find that the planet's mysterious ocean has begun bringing to life precise duplicates of figures from the deepest recesses of the scientists' minds.Īs the novel begins, Kelvin arrives at Solaris Station to study the mysterious and possibly sentient vast ocean that covers the planet Solaris. Kris Kelvin is a Solarist, a scientist who studies the planet Solaris, and his specialty is psychology. Solaris is set in a future time of interplanetary travel.

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