Editing Aniara (section)

== Legacy ==
''Aniara'' has had an influence on later works of [[science fiction]], such as ''[[Tau Zero]]'' by Danish-American writer  [[Poul Anderson]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Budrys |first=Algis |date=December 1970 |title=Galaxy Bookshelf |magazine=[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]}}</ref>{{rp|93–95; 191–192}}

In the 2004 centennial celebration of the birth of Harry Martinson, the Martinson Society characterized ''Aniara'' as an "epic poem about the spaceship in which we flee the destruction of the earth, the spaceship that drifts off course into an endless universe", and considered the poem to have achieved becoming a legend in their own right, one of the myths people are familiar with without necessarily knowing who created them.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 February 2013 |title=In English |url=http://harrymartinson.se/in-english/}}</ref>

In December 2019, the extrasolar planet [[HD 102956 b]] was named after a character aboard the spacecraft, the pilot ''Isagel'', as part of the [[IAU]] [[NameExoWorlds]] project. The exoplanet's star was named ''Aniara''.<ref name="ExoWorlds">{{Cite web |date=2019-06-06 |title=Name an exoplanet (press release) |url=http://www.nameexoworlds.iau.org/sweden |access-date=2019-06-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fof.se/artikel/rymddikt-gav-namn-sveriges-exoplanet|title=Rymddikt gav namn åt Sveriges exoplanet|date=17 December 2019|access-date=17 December 2019|archive-date=12 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112094443/https://fof.se/artikel/rymddikt-gav-namn-sveriges-exoplanet|url-status=dead}}</ref>