Stanisław Lem 2002
- What it is
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Meeting beings from another world · it's hiding a secret
- Genre
- Science fiction Classics
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to Solaris
Coming from Solaris? Start with 2001, In Ascension, Way Station. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
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In Ascension
Martin MacInnes 2023
Readers put them together in First contact with something we can't explain
Way Station
Clifford D. Simak 1980
Grouped with yours in Understanding Science Fiction
5 books
Melancholic and unhurried and cerebral
Fifth Head of Cerberus
Gene Wolfe 1999
It messes with your head · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
Galatea 2. 2
Richard Powers 1995
You'll want to talk it over with someone · full of big ideas
Atonement
Ian McEwan 2001
It makes you think, without a lecture · a farewell that moves you
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan 2022
You'll keep turning it over for days · full of big ideas
Till We Have Faces
C. S. Lewis 1956
You'll keep turning it over for days · a myth or a classic told anew
5 books
Alien contact and cerebral
2001
Arthur C. Clarke 1994
A reader shelved it with yours in Understanding Science Fiction
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu 2008
Nothing is quite what it seems · full of big ideas
Contact
Carl Sagan 1986
Readers put them together in First contact with something we can't explain
The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells 2015
Like yours: alien contact · full of big ideas
Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin 2008
You'll keep turning it over for days · full of big ideas
11 books · Alike in just one
Only melancholic and unhurried
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro 2019
Readers put them together in Science fiction with a soul
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley 2006
Melancholic and unhurried · you end up rooting for the wrong people
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman 1995
Melancholic and unhurried · a place nobody can leave
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro 2005
Melancholic and unhurried · it makes you cry, in a good way
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood 2005
Sad, and in no hurry · no clean hands here
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel 2014
Readers put them together in Science fiction with a soul
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes 2011
It won't tell you everything at once, but in literary fiction
Earth abides
George Rippey Stewart 1949
Sad, and in no hurry · it hurts, and then it heals
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood 2002
Melancholic and unhurried · it stirs you up inside
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway 1952
Melancholic and unhurried · a big story that sweeps you along
The reapers are the angels
Alden Bell 2010
Melancholic and unhurried · fierce and defiant
3 books · Alike in just one
Only alien contact
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut 2004
Readers put them together in Understanding Science Fiction
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir 2021
Grouped with yours in Science fiction with a soul
Humans
Matt Haig 2013
In common with yours: alien contact · it makes you laugh
18 books · Alike in just one
Only cerebral
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson 2005
Readers put them together in First contact with something we can't explain
The left hand of darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin 1969
Readers put them together in Science fiction with a soul
Zone One
Colson Whitehead 2011
It messes with your head · an epidemic changes everything
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin 2020
Readers put them together in Understanding Science Fiction
Roadside Picnic
Strugatsky 1978
A reader shelved it with yours in First contact with something we can't explain
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke 1953
Grouped with yours in First contact with something we can't explain
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco 2003
Nothing is quite what it seems · it stirs you up inside
Possession
A. S. Byatt 1890
It messes with your head · a love story that makes you laugh
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick 2007
Nothing is quite what it seems · no clean hands here
Sphere
Michael Crichton 1987
Readers put them together in First contact with something we can't explain
The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delany 1967
You'll keep turning it over for days · properly strange
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel 1999
You'll keep turning it over for days · full of big ideas
Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1 - 6
Frank Herbert 1965
Nothing is quite what it seems · a world to get lost in
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine 2019
Nothing is quite what it seems · a mystery you want to solve
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John le Carré 1987
You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
4 books
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Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut 1969
A reader shelved it with yours in Science fiction with a soul
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Malcolm Lowry 1947
It stays with you · it tells it with no filter
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer 2014
Grouped with yours in First contact with something we can't explain
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