Solaris Explained

Solaris may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Literature, television and film

• Solaris (novel), a 1961 science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem
  • Solaris (1968 film), directed by Boris Nirenburg
  • Solaris (1972 film), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Solaris (2002 film), directed by Steven Soderbergh
  • Solaris (fictional planet), the planet around which the novel and its adaptations are set
• Solaris, a ship in the animated series The Mysterious Cities of Gold
• Solaris Knight, a character in the TV series Power Rangers: Mystic Force
• Suzie Solaris, a character in the movie Murderers' Row
• Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, an animated series known as Solaris in France

Music

• Solaris, an opera composed by Dai Fujikura, on a libretto by Saburo Teshigawara based on Stanislaw Lem's novel
• Solaris, an opera composed by Detlev Glanert (2010–12)
• Solaris (band), a progressive rock band from Hungary
• Solaris (Photek album), 2000
• Solaris (Elliot Minor album), 2009
• Sólaris, a 2011 album by Daníel Bjarnason and Ben Frost
• "Solaris", a song on Failure's 1996 album Fantastic Planet
• "Solaris", a song on Juno Reactor's 2000 album Shango
• "Solaris", a song on Buck-Tick's 2010 album Razzle Dazzle

Video games

• Solaris (video game) (1986), for the Atari 2600
• Solaris (DAH2), a Russian Moon base in Destroy All Humans! 2
• The overarching antagonist and final boss in the 2006 video game Sonic the Hedgehog
• One of the bosses in Path of Exile
• A country in the Xenogears video game
• A race of debt slaves with augmented bodies in the online game Warframe

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Solaris (DC Comics), a supervillain
• Solaris (magazine), a Canadian science-fiction magazine
• Solaris VII, a world in the fictional BattleTech universe

Organisations

• Solaris (credit institution), a German financial services company
• Solaris (synchrotron), a cyclic particle accelerator in Kraków, Poland
• Solaris Books, a British publisher
• Solaris Bus & Coach, a Polish vehicle producer
• Solaris Mobile, a satellite communications service provider
• Solaris Pictures, an Indian film production company

Other uses

• Solaris (grape)
• Solaris (star)
• Solaris (yacht)
• Oracle Solaris, an operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems
• Hyundai Solaris, a car
• SOLARIS, a proposed space-based solar power program
• Solaris, a brand of photographic film made by Ferrania
• Solaris, a community in Albemarle County, Virginia
• Solaris, a part of the Houdini graphics software package

See also

• Solar (disambiguation)