Solaris, Rediscovered
Wired weighs in on some background details,
such as the author of the original novel.

"His stories involve accidents, malfunctions,
misinterpretations, mistakes of perception,
dogmatic blindness.
A person encounters a system,
and the results of the encounter
reveal the limits of both.
Now, 40 years after its publication,
Lem's own book has gotten away from him,
like some small mechanism in a wayward machine."