“I turned and went out. As I closed the door behind me, I took a last look at him. Tiny, shrunken, his head in his hands and his elbows resting on his stained knees, he sat there, motionless. It was only then that I noticed the dried bloodstains on the backs of his hands.”

–Stanislaw Lem, Solaris

It’s not uncommon for someone to go crazy in space. They all knew the risk, but they were the most prepared, they got the best results on their psychological examinations. So they went. They were going to spend their whole lives in space, traveling and exploring, and reporting all that they found to the Command center on Earth, but it didn’t take long before they started seeing strange things. At first they thought their eyes were playing tricks in the shadows, and they laughed to themselves, until they all realized they were seeing the same things. Was it an alien or something more sinister…?