![]() ![]() The poem has become a legend and is often used as the basis for planetarium shows in Sweden. ![]() Aniara has influenced other works of science fiction, such as Tau Zero and A Fire Upon The Deep. The work was praised for its lyrical storytelling, profound thought, and its portrayal of human greatness turning into humiliation and powerlessness. It was adapted into an opera in 1959 and a Swedish feature film in 2018.Īniara, published in October 1956, was met with public interest and enthusiasm from literary critics and readers. It was published in its final form on 13 October 1956.Īniara has been translated to around twenty languages. The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and entering into an existential struggle. ![]() AniaraĪniara ( Swedish: Aniara : en revy om människan i tid och rum ) is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956. For other uses, see Aniara (disambiguation). ![]()
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