******COSMODROME-SIZED SPOILERS!****** A Brief Synopsis Just saw a new Netflix movie called “Spaceman” (2024), starring Adam Sandler as a lone Czech cosmonaut named Jakub Prochazka who’s been sent to investigate a vast, mysteriously primordial “Chopra cloud” that’s wandered into our solar system and has been visible in the skies above an alternate Earth for the…
Tag: Solaris
Soviet-era sci-fi TV: The first adaptation of “Solaris” (1968)…
*****SPOILERS!***** In this column, I’d previously reviewed both cinematic adaptations of noted Polish sci-fi author Stanislaw Lem’s “Solaris” (1972/2002). The book, arguably Lem’s most celebrated novel, tells the story of psychiatrist-cosmonaut Kris Kelvin, who visits a dilapidated space station in orbit over the distant planet Solaris, which is covered by a living ocean. The Solaris…