Yesterday, we had a great live discussion of ‘Solaris’ by Stanisław Lem, and arrived at a question: why is the fictional planet named that way? Would be strange to name it ‘solar’ as in Sun - ‘Sōl’; it orbits two suns to begin with. I guessed the name could be derived from ‘solo’, as it is inhabited by a single organism; also, it is the only such
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