About the book: 1987 / This collection represents the work of the famous Polish science fiction writer, whose books are always distinguished by the global scale of their problems, interesting scientific forecasts, and cutting-edge interpretation of philosophical and moral issues. The novel "Solaris", one of the masterpieces of modern science fiction, makes us think about the emerging gap between the level of scientific and technological development of our civilization and the social and moral development of man. The novel "Magellan Cloud" belongs to the genre of "utopias": telling about the distant future of humanity, about joys and dangers that may await our descendants, it reminds us that the roots of the future are in the present.