SOURCE: “Resisting Monsters: Notes on Solaris,” in Science-Fiction Studies, Vol. 21, Pt. 2, July, 1994, pp. 173–90.
In the following essay, Weinstone discusses the characterization of monsters in Western literature. Weinstone examines Mary Shelley's character, Frankenstein, and Lem's character, Rheya, in Solaris as notable departures from this tradition.
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