The transitory nature of human existence, especially when set against the infinity of space and time, has served as the inspiration for countless science-fiction narratives in all mediums. Carl Sagan _Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space_ (1997) In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves._ >_Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. Harry Martinson _Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum_ Canto 103 >_around our grave a glass-clear silence cast._ >_where cosmic night, forever cleft from day,_ Harry Martinson _Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum_ Canto 82 Harry Martinson _Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum_ (1956) Canto 25 >_in bleak tracts of space, leaves vile time behind._ >_or spreading deathly quiet on our kind._ >_no longer offering the planet violence_ >_We ride in our sarcophagus in silence,_ _**The poem is a masterpiece of esoteric science-fiction literature and this is an unexpectedly impressive adaptation with a chilling dénouement**_
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