Solaris Collective

All Good Things...

Stanislaw Lem

September 12, 1921 - March 27, 2006

"We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not even the power of all our feelings combined can defeat those laws. All we can do is detest them. The age old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie... So must one be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going?

...I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past."

...from Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Solaris Lives...

It is I, Glimmung. Be not deceived!

Election '04

Let's all play nice. :^)

for fun, see which candidate most closely matches your opinions.

Ethics, anyone?

I thought I share a story with you will make me admit to some grayish ethical behavior. Nevertheless, it's quite amusing and I think you are going to enjoy it. ;^)

Music Hath Charms...

Our love of various musics has been a delicate counterpoint to Solaris, winding in and out of threads ever since Channel One. So here is our own little amphitheatre..

Glimmung's Online Birthday Bash

I thought this deserved a separate topic, don't you?

More Tarkovsky needed

Solaris Forum topic created by Leostaris, September 7, 2002

The Stumbling Space Program and Loss of Vision

(Solaris Forum archive - topic created by Leostaris 22 September, 2002)

I'd like to resume discussion about the vision problems current with the real-life space program as a new topic so as to split it off from the discussion of Soderbergh's film that was begun in the topic about Lem's story with elements of Tarkovsky's film.

Open Thread: A Modest Proposal Continued…

I propose we move to new thread. The 90 posts make the last one hard to open. I don't know how your browser likes it but mine shows empty space instead of the last comments and I have to highlight them for display. So, I propose from now on, anyone who posts 60th post opens immediately a new thread (all of us have guest writer privileges, right?).

Anime, Fantasy, etc...

I took the liberty of copying most of the last two Anime comments here to start it off.