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* GoneHorriblyWrong: The evasive manoeuvre on asteroid Hondo and the ensuing collision with space debris and break-up of the steering gear sends the goldonder into interstellar space, with no hope of return.
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Cut True Art Is Angsty entry as it's a YMMV trope placed on the main page. If it had more context, I would've created a YMMV page for this work but it doesn't have the said context (i.e explaining how the grimness of the novel got it an award).
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Played straight - the epic earned Harry Martinson the Nobel Literature Prize in 1974.
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** The crew detects a probe launched towards them and believe it contains fuel and supplies to help them. When this news is announced to everyone, morale soars. But when the probe finally arrives and brings it onboard, they are unable to find anything of use.
** The 2018 movie has a scene six years in where MR and her team successfully gets the beam projector working to replace the mima, only for her to come back and find Isagel and her baby dead from a MurderSuicide.
** The crew detects a probe launched towards them and believe it contains fuel and supplies to help them. When this news is announced to everyone, morale soars. But when the probe finally arrives and brings it onboard, they are unable to find anything of use.
** The 2018 movie has a scene six years in where MR and her team successfully gets the beam projector working to replace the mima, only for her to come back and find Isagel and her baby dead from a MurderSuicide.
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* EverybodysDeadDave: The last canto.
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* GhostShip: What ''Aniara'' eventually becomes.
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''Aniara'' is the title of an epic poem, written by Harry Martinsson and published in 1956. ''Aniara'' details the voyage of the [[ColonyShip goldonder]] ''Aniara'', which transports colonists from the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt polluted and irradiated Earth]] to new settlements on Mars. During the journey, ''Aniara'' is knocked off course and sets a new, irreversible course towards the constellation Lyra, and the colonists, knowing they will never leave ''Aniara'', attempt to deal with their impending, inevitable doom and realizations of mortality in various more or less insane ways.
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''Aniara'' is the title of an epic poem, written by Harry Martinsson and published in 1956. ''Aniara'' details the voyage of the [[ColonyShip goldonder]] ''Aniara'', which transports colonists from the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt polluted and irradiated Earth]] to new settlements on Mars. During the journey, ''Aniara'' is knocked off course and sets a new, irreversible course towards the constellation Lyra, and the colonists, knowing they will never leave ''Aniara'', attempt to deal with their impending, inevitable doom and realizations of mortality in various more or less insane ways.
ways. The book consists of 103 poems, ''canto''s, of which the shortest are one stanza ong and longest fill several pages.
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* TrueArtIsAngsty: Played straight - the epic earned Harry Martinson the Nobel Literature Prize in 1974.
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* GenerationShip: One of the cruellest aversions in the scifi literature.
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* MileLongShip: 16,000 ft, to be exact
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: ''Heartwrenchingly'' averted. Martinson was a personal friend of Niels Bohr, and perfectly aware of the nature of the interstellar space.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: DoubleSubverted. It is the humans' requests of recalling the fate of Dorisburg which causes mima to self-destruct.
* AllForNothing: Everyone dies in the end.
* BenevolentAi: The mima.
* BurialInSpace: The chief engineer.
* AllForNothing: Everyone dies in the end.
* BenevolentAi: The mima.
* BurialInSpace: The chief engineer.
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* DespairEventHorizon: An important theme of the story is what happens when a group of humans are stranded on a spaceship in the vastness of space for the rest of their lives. It’s not pretty.
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* DwindlingParty: The ship’s population gradually dies out over the years and by the end, the '' Aniara'' is abandoned.
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* GaiasLament: The Earth has become ravaged to the point of uninhabitability.
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* MurderSuicide: As explicitly shown in the 2018 film, Isagel, who has long since crossed the DespairEventHorizon, kills both herself and her child.
* OffingTheOffspring: Isagel murders her own son in a MurderSuicide.
* OffingTheOffspring: Isagel murders her own son in a MurderSuicide.
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* HopeSpot: The 2018 movie has a scene six years in where MR and her team successfully gets the beam projector working to replace the mima, only for her to come back and find Isagel and her baby dead from a MurderSuicide.
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* DeadlyDistantFinale: The end of the 2018 film cuts ahead to year 5,981,407, almost ''six million years'' after ''Aniara'' began her voyage, and shows the ship finally reaching a planet orbiting GM-54, a (fictional) star in the Lyra constellation. Of course, the ''Aniara'' is now derelict and frozen, and everyone on board is long dead.
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* GenderFlip: The narrator, male in the original, is a lesbian female in the 2018 movie.
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* DeusEstMachina: Many of the colonists take to viewing memories of Earth from the mima to dispel their angst and ennui, and some even take to worshipping the mima as a deity. Needless to say, they don't take the mima's death well.
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''Aniara'' is the title of an epic poem, written by Harry Martinsson and published in 1956. ''Aniara'' details the voyage of the [[ColonyShip goldonder]] ''Aniara'', which transports colonists from the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt polluted and irradiated Earth]] to new settlements on Mars. During the journey, ''Aniara'' is knocked off course and sets a new, irreversible course towards the constellation Lyra, and the colonists, knowing they will never leave ''Aniara'' ''Aniara'', attempt to deal with their impending, inevitable doom and realizations of mortality in various more or less insane ways.
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* CargoCult: Most notably the cult that springs up around the mima, but several others pop up as well.
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* WagonTrainToTheStars: UnbuiltTrope: ''Aniara'' is possibly the single most depressing example in existence. It has none of the hope of the rest of the genre; it is implied that the Mars-colonies were a desperate last-ditch attempt to save anything of humanity, and the colonists on ''Aniara'' are well aware from the get-go that there is no way for them to do anything other than live out their lives and then travel through nothingness forever.
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* WagonTrainToTheStars: UnbuiltTrope: ''Aniara'' is possibly the single most depressing example in existence. It has none of the hope of the rest of the genre; it is implied that the Mars-colonies were a desperate last-ditch attempt to save anything of humanity, and the colonists on ''Aniara'' are well aware from the get-go that there is no way for them to do anything other than live out their lives and then travel through nothingness forever.forever.
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The poem has been adapted for stage several times, most notably as an opera in 1959. In 2018, the movie Film/{{Aniara}} premiered at Toronto Film Festival.
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''Aniara'' is the title of an epic poem, written by Harry Martinsson and published in 1956. ''Aniara'' details the voyage of the [[ColonyShip Gondolder]] goldonder]] ''Aniara'', which transports colonists from the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt polluted and irradiated Earth]] to new settlements on Mars. During the journey, ''Aniara'' is knocked off course and sets a new, irreversible course towards the constellation Lyra, and the colonists, knowing they will never leave ''Aniara'' attempt to deal with their impending, inevitable doom and realizations of mortality in various more or less insane ways.
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''Aniara'' was acclaimed both by critics and the general public, and is generally considered to be the key factor in Martinsson receiving the Nobel Literature Prize in 1974.
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* EarthThatWas: ''Aniara'' left Earth when it was still technically habitable, but on the way out due to radioactive fallout and pollution. however, during the tale, ''Aniara'' intercepts a message form Earth, indicating that what was left is now completely destroyed.
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* LaymansTerm: Deconstructed. Afer the death of the mima, the narrator is hauled to court to explain what happened... only to find that he can't. He knows exactly what happened and can explain it clearly in the jargon the mimarobs use, but when he tries to simplify it for public cosumption his analogies collapse or his thoughts become muddled and incoherent to the point where they have no relation to what hapened at all.
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''Aniara'' is the title of an epic poem, written by Harry Martinsson and published in 1956. ''Aniara'' details the voyage of the [[SpaceArk [[ColonyShip Gondolder]] ''Aniara'', which transports colonists from the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt polluted and irradiated Earth]] to new settlements on Mars. During the journey, ''Aniara'' is knocked off course and sets a new, irreversible course towards the constellation Lyra, and the colonists, knowing they will never leave ''Aniara'' attempt to deal with their impending, inevitable doom and realizations of mortality in various more or less insane ways.
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''Aniara'' is the title of an epic poem, written by Harry Martinsson and published in 1956. ''Aniara'' details the voyage of the [[SpaceArk Gondolder]] ''Aniara'', which transports colonists from the [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt polluted and irradiated Earth]] to new settlements on Mars. During the journey, ''Aniara'' is knocked off course and sets a new, irreversible course towards the constellation Lyra, and the colonists, knowing they will never leave ''Aniara'' attempt to deal with their impending, inevitable doom and realizations of mortality in various more or less insane ways.
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!!''Aniara'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* ConLang: Martinsson plays with this. For example many of the titles take their roots from a variety of languages. TheCaptain of ''Aniara'' bears the title "chefone", combining the French word for "boss" with the Italian augmentative suffix (in essence the captain is called "big boss") and the narrator is called "mimarob" after "mima", Martinsson's name for ''Aniara'''s MasterComputer, and the Slavic word "rob" meaning serf or slave.
* DeusEstMachina: Many of the colonists take to viewing memories of Earth from the mima to dispel their angst and ennui, and some even take to worshipping the mima as a deity. Needless to say, they don't take the mima's death well.
* DownerEnding: EveryoneDies. It's stated outright from the start, and there is no DeusExMachina to make things right.
* FutureSlang: Daisy the dancer
* LaymansTerm: Deconstructed. Afer the death of the mima, the narrator is hauled to court to explain what happened... only to find that he can't. He knows exactly what happened and can explain it clearly in the jargon the mimarobs use, but when he tries to simplify it for public cosumption his analogies collapse or his thoughts become muddled and incoherent to the point where they have no relation to what hapened at all.
* OutOfGenreExperience: Martinsson was, for most of his career, primarily famous for writing working-class critiques of contemporary society and travelogues from his days as a seaman, and had been a published author for 25 years before ''Aniara''.
* WagonTrainToTheStars: UnbuiltTrope: ''Aniara'' is possibly the single most depressing example in existence. It has none of the hope of the rest of the genre; it is implied that the Mars-colonies were a desperate last-ditch attempt to save anything of humanity, and the colonists on ''Aniara'' are well aware from the get-go that there is no way for them to do anything other than live out their lives and then travel through nothingness forever.
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!!''Aniara'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* ConLang: Martinsson plays with this. For example many of the titles take their roots from a variety of languages. TheCaptain of ''Aniara'' bears the title "chefone", combining the French word for "boss" with the Italian augmentative suffix (in essence the captain is called "big boss") and the narrator is called "mimarob" after "mima", Martinsson's name for ''Aniara'''s MasterComputer, and the Slavic word "rob" meaning serf or slave.
* DeusEstMachina: Many of the colonists take to viewing memories of Earth from the mima to dispel their angst and ennui, and some even take to worshipping the mima as a deity. Needless to say, they don't take the mima's death well.
* DownerEnding: EveryoneDies. It's stated outright from the start, and there is no DeusExMachina to make things right.
* FutureSlang: Daisy the dancer
* LaymansTerm: Deconstructed. Afer the death of the mima, the narrator is hauled to court to explain what happened... only to find that he can't. He knows exactly what happened and can explain it clearly in the jargon the mimarobs use, but when he tries to simplify it for public cosumption his analogies collapse or his thoughts become muddled and incoherent to the point where they have no relation to what hapened at all.
* OutOfGenreExperience: Martinsson was, for most of his career, primarily famous for writing working-class critiques of contemporary society and travelogues from his days as a seaman, and had been a published author for 25 years before ''Aniara''.
* WagonTrainToTheStars: UnbuiltTrope: ''Aniara'' is possibly the single most depressing example in existence. It has none of the hope of the rest of the genre; it is implied that the Mars-colonies were a desperate last-ditch attempt to save anything of humanity, and the colonists on ''Aniara'' are well aware from the get-go that there is no way for them to do anything other than live out their lives and then travel through nothingness forever.
