In Reply to: Actually Solaris (the original) is timeless in what it speaks to and asks. posted by Tony D. on June 20, 2010 at 08:56:57:
Most fiction ages, and this falls into that category in a number of ways.
So what we have is a work that was good for it's time. That's all.
Of course others borrowed, I don't know of any genre that developed it's themes as it went along as much as scifi did.
Like Vic, you see this as ahht. I see it as scifi. You know, go to alien planet, there's an alien there, things happen.
To tell ya the truth, I feel scifi and that whole psychological fiction thing is a very awkward marriage.
Heart of Darkness this ain't...
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