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* {{Exposition}}: The "Kelvin reads a book" scenes.
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* {{Exposition}}: The "Kelvin reads EncyclopediaExposita: "The Little Apocryph", a book" scenes.collection of strange, fringe-y reports from Solaris (among them, the Barton's report, which may be describing the very first instance of the ocean using human memories to create something), proves rather useful to Kris. He generally prefers to spend his time in the library, in part because it has no windows.
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* ItCanThink: In the universe of the books there's entire libraries of material trying to prove or disprove this. At the end of the story [[spoiler: it seems like it can, but not in a way that can be understood by humans]]. And even that is considered a breakthrough in the field.
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* ItCanThink: In the universe of the books there's entire libraries of material trying to prove or disprove this.this about Solaris. At the end of the story [[spoiler: it seems like it can, but not in a way that can be understood by humans]]. And even that is considered a breakthrough in the field.
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* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: Harey really isn't one for Kris, even if DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment at first (until he cottons on to the fact ''he's not dreaming'').
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* FictionalFieldOfScience: "Solaristics", the study of the titular planet. Kelvin describes, at lenght, the different schools of solaristics and gives a rough outline of its history, ever since Solaris was first discovered, about a hundred years before the story takes place.
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* FictionalFieldOfScience: "Solaristics", the study of the titular planet. Kelvin describes, at lenght, length, the different schools of solaristics and gives a rough outline of its history, ever since Solaris was first discovered, about a hundred years before the story takes place.
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* DoorDumb: In a shining example of how to play a normally comedic [[TropesAreTools trope for drama]], when Kris experimentally leaves Harey in the room, he's thunderstruck to see the door ''bend inwards''. He realises that Harey is pulling instead of pushing the (unlocked) door just as it cracks and she stumbles out, a bloody mess. Then, as he calms her down and is just about to treat her injured hands, the HealingFactor kicks in to further drive the point home - this is not a delicate girl he's dealing with.
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* DoorDumb: In a shining example of how to play a normally comedic [[TropesAreTools trope for drama]], when Kris experimentally leaves Harey in the room, he's thunderstruck to see the door ''bend inwards''. He realises that Harey is pulling instead of pushing the (unlocked) door just as a second before it cracks and she stumbles out, a bloody mess. Then, as he calms her down and is just about to treat her injured hands, the HealingFactor kicks in to further drive the point home - this is not a delicate girl he's dealing with.
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* FictionalFieldOfScience: "Solaristics", the study of the titular planet. Kelvin even gives a description of the different theories within solaristics.
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* FictionalFieldOfScience: "Solaristics", the study of the titular planet. Kelvin even gives a description of describes, at lenght, the different theories within solaristics.schools of solaristics and gives a rough outline of its history, ever since Solaris was first discovered, about a hundred years before the story takes place.
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* ImmuneToDrugs: The visitors, as established when Kris slips a sleeping pill into Harey's (the first one) juice. [[spoiler: Later on, she does the same to him so he won't interfere in her annihilation. Kris notices the taste is off, but since she drinks from the same glass, never suspects a thing until it's too late.]]
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* ImmuneToDrugs: The visitors, as established when Kris slips a sleeping pill into Harey's (the first one) juice. [[spoiler: Later on, she the second Harey does the same to him so he won't interfere in her annihilation. Kris notices the taste is off, but since she drinks from the same glass, never suspects a thing until it's too late.]]
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* ImmuneToDrugs: The visitors, as established when Kris slips a sleeping pill into Harey's (the first one) juice. [[spoiler: Later on, she does the same to him so he won't interfere in her annihilation. Kris notices the taste is off, but since she drinks from the same glass, never suspects a thing until it's too late.]]
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* AlienSea: The ocean.
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* AlienSea: The ocean.ocean, which is alive and almost certainly thinking (but not as we know it), in addition to all the mysterious things it does, like phosphorising randomly and having things emerge from it.
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* AmbiguousSituation: At one point Kelvin wakes up to find a visitor in the shape of Gibarian and they have a conversation. It's later revealed that at that moment Kelvin's wife was listening to a recording of Gibarian. The researchers theorize that Solaris gets the information to make the visitors while they sleep so it is possible that Gibarian was a dream provokes by the voice in the recording or a visitor created by the voice stimulating Kelvin's mind. Afterwards Kelvin believes it was all a dream, but that's also what he thinks when first encountering the real visitor, so he might be wrong.
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* AmbiguousSituation: At one point Kelvin wakes up to find a visitor in the shape of Gibarian and they have a conversation. It's later revealed that at that moment Kelvin's wife was Then he wakes up (maybe...) and hears Harey listening to a the recording of Gibarian. Gibarian made. The researchers theorize that Solaris gets the information to make the visitors while they sleep sleep, so it is equally possible that Gibarian was a dream provokes by the voice in the recording dream, or a that he was an actual visitor created by the voice stimulating Kelvin's mind. Afterwards Kelvin believes it was all a dream, but that's also what he thinks when first encountering the real visitor, so he might be wrong.
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* {{Expospeak}}: The "Kelvin reads a book" scenes.
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* {{Expospeak}}: {{Exposition}}: The "Kelvin reads a book" scenes.
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* HealingFactor: The visitors have it; it's impossible to kill them, their wounds heal in moments.
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* HealingFactor: The visitors have it; it's impossible to kill them, their wounds heal in moments.as you look at them. Snow explains, however, that they're not immortal - all you need to do is get them far enough from the planet... All the samples taken from the solarian ocean so far, Kelvin notes, have turned to dust.
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* ItCanThink: In the universe of the books there's entire libraries of material trying to prove or disprove this. At the end of the story [[spoiler: it seems like it can, but not in a way that can be understood by humans]]. And even that is considered a breakthrough in the feild.
* JerkAss: Sartorius always acts in an unbearably pretentious manner; neither Snow nor Kelvin can stand him.
* JerkAss: Sartorius always acts in an unbearably pretentious manner; neither Snow nor Kelvin can stand him.
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* ItCanThink: In the universe of the books there's entire libraries of material trying to prove or disprove this. At the end of the story [[spoiler: it seems like it can, but not in a way that can be understood by humans]]. And even that is considered a breakthrough in the feild.
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* JerkAss: Sartorius always acts in an unbearably pretentious manner;neither Snow nor Kelvin can can't stand him.him. Snow, who's known the guy longer, is noncommital.
* JerkAss: Sartorius always acts in an unbearably pretentious manner;
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* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: The book is very scarce of unnecessary information. We never learn the wife's last name, or the other crew members' first names or who their visitors are (implied but not confirmed to be Snow's wife and Sartorius' child). We never learned why Gibarian's visitor was a large black woman or what drove him to suicide.
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* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: The book is very scarce of unnecessary information. We never learn the wife's Harey's last name, or the other crew members' first names or who their visitors are (implied but not confirmed to be Snow's wife and (in Sartorius' case, the visitor is implied to be a child). We never learned learn why Gibarian's visitor was a large black woman or what drove him to suicide.
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* MinimalistCast: The only characters in the novel are Kelvin, Snow, Sartorius and Rheya... and she isn't a real person. Though she appears twice; does that count as two characters? Kelvin also briefly sees Gibarian's visitor, a large black woman. It is of note that we don't even know what shape Snow and Sartorius' visitors take.
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* MinimalistCast: The only characters in the novel are Kelvin, Snow, Sartorius and Rheya... and she isn't a real person. Though she appears twice; does that count as two characters? Kelvin also briefly sees Gibarian's visitor, a large black woman. It is of note that we don't even know what shape We never get a proper look at Snow and Sartorius' visitors take.visitors. There's the crew of Prometheus, the ship that brought Kelvin, but only for a single scene - only one crewman gets a name and a couple of lines, the rest are just back there.
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* DubNameChange: Snaut and Harey are called Snow and Rheya in the 1970 English translation. The 2011 translation restores their original names.
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* DubNameChange: Snaut and DoorDumb: In a shining example of how to play a normally comedic [[TropesAreTools trope for drama]], when Kris experimentally leaves Harey are called Snow and Rheya in the 1970 English translation. The 2011 translation restores their original names.room, he's thunderstruck to see the door ''bend inwards''. He realises that Harey is pulling instead of pushing the (unlocked) door just as it cracks and she stumbles out, a bloody mess. Then, as he calms her down and is just about to treat her injured hands, the HealingFactor kicks in to further drive the point home - this is not a delicate girl he's dealing with.
* DubNameChange: Snaut and Harey are called Snow and Rheya in the 1970 English translation. The 2011 translation restores their original names.
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* OffscreenTeleportation: How the visitors appear.
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* OffscreenTeleportation: How Both times, Kris is just lying in bed, in the visitors appear.dark, and Harey suddenly is there.
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* GeniusLoci: The planet.
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* GeniusLoci: The planet. Probably.
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* HumanoidAbomination: Of a sort, in the form of a ''giant baby.''
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* HumanoidAbomination: Of a sort, One in the form of a ''giant baby.''baby'' is described in Barton's report - Barton was a pilot on one of the previous missions and saw ''things'' while searching for a lost member of the crew that Gibarian thought had been a test run for the visitors. These included a four-meters long baby testing its movement range.
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* MinimalistCast: The only characters in the novel are Kelvin, Snow, Sartorius and Rheya... and she isn't a real person. Though she appears twice; does that count as two characters? Kelvin also briefly sees Gibarian's visitor, a large black woman. It is of note that we don't even know what shape Snow and Sartorius' visitor's take
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* MinimalistCast: The only characters in the novel are Kelvin, Snow, Sartorius and Rheya... and she isn't a real person. Though she appears twice; does that count as two characters? Kelvin also briefly sees Gibarian's visitor, a large black woman. It is of note that we don't even know what shape Snow and Sartorius' visitor's takevisitors take.
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* BinarySuns: They're of different colours, hence two different types of days on Solaris and its complicated orbital situation which might have cause the ocean entity to evolve the gravity-changing effect it has. Might. All the characters really know is that the effect exists.
