******SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!******* As a youngster, I remember being home sick from school once with a mild fever. I flipped through the limited number of broadcast stations on our family’s 25″ Zenith TV before collapsing on the couch. I came across a promising sci-fi movie on a local station called “First Spaceship on Venus,” originally titled…
Tag: Stanislaw Lem
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…