One of the attractions is Mima, a sentient machine that acts like a psychic virtual reality device, offering passengers a release from the mundanities of the voyage by escaping into a virtual reconstruction of their own memories. An exodus has begun, survivors being evacuated to a colony on Mars aboard huge transport ships like the Aniara (the word comes from the ancient Greek for sadness or despair) that resemble twenty-first century cruise-liners, packed to the rafters will all the luxuries and amenities that passengers need to help them through the three week journey to their new home. And in 2018, Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja made their directorial debuts with this haunting big screen adaptation.Īt some specified date in the near future, the Earth is dying, ravaged by irreversible climate change. In 2010, Swedish prog metal band Seventh Wonder used the poem as the basis for an epic half hour track on their album The Great Escape, setting the entire poem to music. Three years after it was published, it was adapted into an opera by Karl-Birger Blomdahl with a libretto written by Erik Lindegren which in turn was adapted for television as simply Aniara in 1960. Harley Schubert as Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space shortly after it was first published but it was on native soil where the poem made its greatest impact. It was translated into English by Hugh MacDiarmid and E. Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum, an epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1956 has proved to be more influential in its native Sweden than non-Swedes might expect.
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