The much more interesting but lesser known dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell’s 1984.

Not as prophetic as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World but it’s more consistently well written and has mostly aged better.

It’s more open to interpretation than I was expecting.

I love the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games! Especially the third one. It’s a game I always come back to over the years.

Reading through the original inspiration for the games was a real pleasure.

Stanislaw Lem pops off once again. I’m blown away at how he can integrate all these disparate emotions and ideas into one novel.

Fantastic genre-bending sci-fi.

My mind’s eye has never been very good so I rarely latch on to descriptions of the spaces that characters find themselves in. But, the descriptions of Solaris’s space station and the planet it’s orbiting were so vivid and interesting that it elevated the story for me.

The space station’s color scheme of white combined with stripes of vibrant colors lit by the alternating blue and red hues of the system’s both suns was breathtaking.