Ickapoo is lonely as an alien. Aliens are mt with fear because they are different. But perhaps this is a projection of human anxiety, phobia rather than a justified belief?
The novel Solaris reads like the perfect precursor to Baudrillard's theories on simulation in which the copy or image of the original has effaced the original and there is no longer any possibility of distinguishing between the copy and the original. In the case of Solaris, Kevin is visited by his beautiful ex-wife Rheya only it is an alien reproduction of her from the cosmic ocean Solaris sent as an instrument of interrogation to probe Kevin's conscience. Kevin though fearing this alien simulacra of Rheya initially begins to fall for the copy Rheya and there is no longer any ability on his part to distinguish between
