"Solyaris" – besspornaya vershina tvorchestva Stanislava Lema, proizvedenie, povliyavshee na razvitie nauchnoy fantastiki XX veka, v tom chisle i na russkuyu fantastiku. Roman dvazhdy ekranizirovan, po nemu byli postavleny radiopesy, spektakli – i dazhe balet! Itak, chto zhe takoe Solyaris? Beskrayniy myslyaschiy okean, presleduyuschiy neponyatnye cheloveku tseli, tonchayshiy kamerton, preobrazuyuschiy lyudskie chuvstva v materialnuyu formu? Voploschennyy koshmar psihologa ili duhovnyy tselitel? So dnya publikatsii knigi proshlo bolshe 50 let, a ee chitateli vse tak zhe prodolzhayut zadavatsya voprosami, otvety na kotorye nevozmozhno poluchit, ne zaglyanuv v svoe sobstvennoe serdtse. "Edem" – udivitelnyy splav dinamichnogo boevika, sotsialnoy dramy i zhestkoy antiutopii – mozhno smelo postavit v odin ryad s takimi klassicheskimi proizvedeniyami nauchnoy fantastiki, kak "451° po Farengeytu" Reya Bredberi i roman Dzhordzha Oruella "1984". "Sredi zvezd nas zhdet neizvestnoe!" – fraza Lema, stavshaya krylatoy, imeet oschutimo gorkiy privkus razocharovaniya. Protsess poznaniya neset v sebe yadovitoe yadro, i prisuschiy chelovechestvu gumanizm okazyvaetsya bessilnym pri stolknovenii s chuzhdym inoplanetnym razumom na prekrasnoy i tainstvennoy planete Edem…
