Title: Aniara
Title Record # 1673061
Author: Harry Martinson
Date: 1956-10-00
Type: COLLECTION
Language: Swedish
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Author: Harry Martinson
Date: 1956-10-00
Type: COLLECTION
Language: Swedish
Note: Aniara (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. It was published on 13 October 1956.
Translated by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert
The first 29 cantos of Aniara had previously been published in Martinson's collection Cikada (1953), under the title Sången om Doris och Mima (The Song of Doris and Mima).
Synopsis: The poem Aniara consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a spacecraft which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, is ejected after an accident from the Solar System and into an existential struggle.
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Aniara: En revy om människan i tid och rum | 1956-00-00 | Harry Martinson | Albert Bonniers | 217 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | ||||
| Aniara: En revy om människan i tid och rum | 1957-00-00 | Harry Martinson | Albert Bonniers | skr 18.50?skr: Swedish krona (crown) |
218 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
| Aniara | 1963-00-00 | Harry Martinson | Hutchinson | 21/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
xviii+ 132 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
| Aniara | 1964-00-00 | Harry Martinson | Alfred A. Knopf | $4.00?$: US dollar |
132 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
coll | |||
| Aniara | 1976-09-00 | Harry Martinson | Equinox / Avon (SF Rediscovery #24) | 0-380-00603-0 | $2.25?$: US dollar |
xviii+ 132 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Vicente Segrelles |  |
| Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space | 1999-02-00 | Harry Martinson | Story Line Press | 1-885266-63-4 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
157 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Lennart Granberg |
Reviews
- Review [English] by Theodore Sturgeon (1963) in Galaxy Magazine, August 1963
- Review [English] by P. Schuyler Miller (1965) in Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, May 1965
- Review [English] by Harry Martinson (1976) in The Science Fiction Review Monthly, October 1976
- Review [English] by A. M. Wineberg (1976) in Galileo, December 1976
- Review [English] by Spider Robinson (1976) in Galaxy, December 1976
- Review [English] by Charles N. Brown (1977) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Summer 1977
- Review [English] by Michael Bishop (1977) in Delap's F & SF Review, June 1977
- Review [English] by Mark Purcell (1977) in Luna Monthly, #67, Spring 1977
- Review [English] by Gary K. Wolfe (1999) in Locus, #464 September 1999
- Review [English] by Steve Sneyd (2000) in The Zone, Summer 2000