One character in this novel uses the phrase "word of honor" to demand honesty from the protagonist, who attempts to prove his sanity by checking calculations up to four decimal points. After pouring acid on blood, this novel's protagonist proposes a neutrino-based composition for the "Phi-creatures," which include a "visitor" who attempts suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. The Little Apocrypha records the pilot Berton's encounter with an uncanny child-shaped mimoid years before the events of this novel, during which Dr. (*) Sartorius barricades himself in his lab after Snow's X-ray bombardment experiments trigger the manifestation of anthropomorphic forms like the protagonist's dead lover Rheya. For 10 points, name this epistemological novel that opens with the Prometheus bringing Gibarian
One character in this novel uses the phrase "word of honor" to demand honesty from the protagonist, who attempts to prove his sanity by checking calculations up to four decimal points. After pouring acid on blood, this novel's protagonist proposes a neutrino-based composition for the "Phi-creatures," which include a "visitor" who attempts suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. The Little Apocrypha records the pilot Berton's encounter with an uncanny child-shaped mimoid years before the events of this novel, during which Dr. (*) Sartorius barricades himself in his lab after Snow's X-ray bombardment experiments trigger the manifestation of anthropomorphic forms like the protagonist's dead lover Rheya. For 10 points, name this epistemological novel that opens with the Prometheus bringing Gibarian's replacement Kris Kelvin to a research station on a sentient ocean planet, a work by Stanisław Lem.
One character in this novel uses the phrase "word of honor" to demand honesty from the protagonist, who attempts to prove his sanity by checking calculations up to four decimal points.
Solaris