Solaris is creepy, but in a good way. One of the relatively few earlier scifi books that spoke to me. A bit too kafkaesque for my taste, maybe, but good execution nevertheless. The foggy planet is creepy even before it starts doing things.

Did not finish. Dense, philosophical, felt deeply pointless and like I was just waiting for it to be over. The alien message gets never decoded, and everything is grey and sucks. This book is part of the [2022 Backlog Incident](/p/2022-b