(.) (I)t was a bold move to translate this work and it may well prove a seminal volume in the history of English letters.' - Burns Singer (.) (T)here are passages in which his conception justifies itself and the words radiate a kind of austere but delicate simplicity. 'His business as a poet does not include the development of new principles of cosmology or the invention of thought systems but is rather concerned with details which will make credible whatever cosmology or thought systems he adopts. Nobel Prize material ? Surely not, whatever allowances we make for the translation.' - Keith Sagar (.) (B)etween the giggles are vast expanses of inanity. The treatment will strike even a reader wholly unfamiliar with science-fiction as deficient in imaginative force and originality. '(T)he high seriousness of this theme evaporates in the intense-inane of Mr Martinson's imagination.

It was also an influence for Poul Anderson's hard science fiction novel Tau Zero. The poem was referenced in Vernor Vinge's hard science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep. The poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a space ship (4,750 m (15,580 ft) long and 891 m (2,923 ft) wide) which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, after an accident is ejected from the solar system and into an existential struggle. It was selected a s the second most important book published in Sweden in the 20th century. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg, Story Line Press, 1998.Īniara (Swedish: Aniara : en revy om människan i tid och rum]) is a poem of science fiction written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1956.

Harry Martinson, Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem, T rans.

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