![]() When the Epic was published in 1956 it got an enthusiastic reception from both critics and public. The Aniarapeople are then forced to see the Earth explode, which causes the Goldonder’s supercomputer to terminate itself, and this becomes humanity's last connection to Earth. The passengers are forced to leave the home planet, damaged by environmental decay and nuclear war, and become refugees in cosmos when a collision with space junk throws the spacecraft off course, straight into the unknown space. In Aniara, we get to follow the 8000 people traveling towards Mars onboard the Aniara spacecraft (a type called G oldonders). I am not much of a poem reader myself, but I must admit that Aniara is simply a masterpiece. ![]() The collection itself is worth a whole article, but the section about Aniara caught med off-guard and made me go look for the original work.Īniara is something as odd as a space dystopia framed in the form of an Epic with 103 poems (or songs), written by the Swedish poet Harry Martinson. ![]() Aniara - The Space Dystopia That Generated a Nobel Prize I first read about Aniara some fifteen years ago, in a brilliant essay collection about the Universe. ![]()
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