title: Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction
author: Whates Ian
description: <b>Ian Whates</b> is a director of both the Science-Fiction Writers Association and the British Science-Fiction Association. He is the proprietor and editor of NewCon Press. His novels <i>The Noise Within</i> and <i>The Noise Revealed</i> are published by Solaris, he has also written <i>City of Dreams &amp; Nightmare</i> and <i>City of Hope &amp; Despair</i>.
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  “A MAJOR WRITER AND ONE OF K X 
  ’ THE DEEP SPIRITS OF OUR AGE!" \
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  STANISLAW
  LEM
  SOLARIS
  MOST FAMOUS NOVEL
  
  MORE THAN SIX MIL LION OF HIS BOOKS H \VI 
  SOLD THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
  HE HAS BECOME ONE Of THE MOST CRITL 
  CALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHORS IN HIS FIELD
  SOLARIS
  IS BUT ONE OF THE BRILLIANT, POWER EH 
  STAGGERINGLY IMAGINATIVE REASONS WHY
  "The vision of an open road into the future an example of 
  what science fiction can do." 
  —Darko Sus in
  
  SOLARIS
  STROISLfiW L€m
  translated from the French 
  by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox
  Afterword by Darko Suvin
  LO.VtH Mi'.!.
  BERKLEY BOOKS, NEW YORK
  
  All the characters and events portrayed in this story 
  are fictitious.
  SOLARIS
  A Berkley Book / published by arrangement with 
  Walker and Company
  PRINTING HISTORY 
  Berkley edition / December 1971 
  Eighth printing I January 1982
  All rights reserved.
  Copyright © 1961 by Stanislaw Lem.
  Translation copyright © 1970 by Faber and Faber Ltd. 
  and Wal