/lit/ - Literature

ITT: /litmu/

Post songs/ concept albums based on novels. For example:
Nightfall on Middle Earth by Blind Guardian which is about the Silmarillion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f9ujIHkMMg&list=PLhD3WSuunXqMAXtUvuIKgrLnjVXPs6-fT
The Great Escape by Seventh Wonder which is about Aniara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMjO7y-98Ak
And the Thing That Should Not Be by Metallica which is about Shadow Over Innsmouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ObqZtxuj0

As just a few examples.

>Aniara (Swedish: Aniara : en revy om människan i tid och rum[3]) is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson from 1953 to 1956. It narrates the tragedy of a large passenger spacecraft carrying a cargo of colonists escaping destruction on Earth veering off course, leaving the Solar System and entering into an existential struggle. The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting. It was published in its final form on 13 October 1956.

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Our space-ship Aniara travels on
in something that does not possess a brain-pan
and does not even need the stuff of brains.
She’s traveling on in something that exists
but does not need to take the path of thought.
Through God and Death and Mystery we race
on space-ship Aniara without goal or trace.
O would that we could turn back to our base
now that we realize what our space-ship is:
a little bubble in the glass of Godhead.

(the movie is excellent as well)

Any books on the existential horror of deep space? Thinking something like Aniara by Harry Martinson.

The sterile void of space is terrifying.

Glass-like is the stare encircling us

and the systems of stars hang frozen and still

in the round crystal windows of our ship.