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Stanisław Lem: Critical Essay by Manfred Geier

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SOURCE: “Stanislaw Lem's Fantastic Ocean: Toward a Semantic Interpretation of Solaris,” in Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 19, Pt. 2, July, 1992, pp. 192–218.

In the following essay, Geier examines Lem's fictional ocean in Solaris as a model for understanding how imaginary conceptions and phenomena are given linguistic reality in science fiction writing.

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