I re-read Solaris last week. There is a great scene in the book, an interview with a pilot named Berton who “saw things”. It starts with the pilot’s log, then moves into an interview. And it’s super creepy as we discover what he, a top pilot, saw and the effect it had on him, and the fact that the panel of interviewers think him insane. While I was still some distance away, I noticed a pale, almost white, object floating on the surface. My first thought was that it was Fechner’s fly...
