The story centers on “Aniara,” a massive spacecraft resembling a liner, which is transporting people to Mars when it's damaged by space debris. Unable to use its fuel, the ship loses propulsion and Captain "Chefone" (Arvin Kananian) informs passengers that their three-week journey might now take two years—that’s assuming they can manage to gain speed by slingshotting around another celestial body. Initially, the trav…

_**The poem is a masterpiece of esoteric science-fiction literature; and this is an unexpectedly impressive adaptation with a chilling dénouement**_ >_We ride in our sarcophagus in silence,_ >_no longer offering the planet violence_ >_or spreading deathly quiet on our kind._ >_Here we can question freely, true_ >_while the vessel_ Aniara_, gone askew_ >_in bleak tracts of spa…