Oxygénia
In the year 3069, space farer Peter MacGulliver who is used to a happy life on a healthy and clean planet Earth strands on a planet which environment is completely ruined by heavy pollution, where there isn't even any oxygen left in the atmosphere and where billions of humanoid beings have to live with gas masks and rationed oxygen for their whole life – Oxygénia. On his long way to escape this living nightmare, Peter has to get to know all three major layers of the society of Oxygénia: Trunk Bearers, Rememberers and the "upper ten thousand" (one hundred lineages with one hundred members), the last ones living in a literal paradise and sheer luxury on the expense of all others. There are also some refugees and renegades amongst the Rememberers... can Peter escape Oxygénia, get back to his spaceship and his wife who is waiting there for him? This novel is a grim dark vision of what can very well become of Earth if mankind goes on the way it has done for the last few centuries. Today, there are already structures on Earth similiar to the dreadful "Oxygénia Trust" with its one hundred lineages, "elites" who don't bother about the fate of billions of other humans; there is pollution and climate change which is both very well capable of turning Earth into Oxygénia if our species doesn't change the set course very soon. See what the future might be like, and let's hope and take actions that it's not too late already, that we still can get off the path we're on to now – the path to Oxygénia.
In the year 3069, space farer Peter MacGulliver who is used to a happy life on a healthy and clean planet Earth strands on a planet which environment is completely ruined by heavy pollution, where there isn't even any oxygen left in the atmosphere and where billions of humanoid beings have to live with gas masks and rationed oxygen for their whole life – Oxygénia.
On his long way to escape this living nightmare, Peter has to get to know all three major layers of the society of Oxygénia: Trunk Bearers, Rememberers and the "upper ten thousand" (one hundred lineages with one hundred members), the last ones living in a literal paradise and sheer luxury on the expense of all others. There are also some refugees and renegades amongst the Rememberers... can Peter escape Oxygénia, get back to his spaceship and his wife who is waiting there for him?
This novel is a grim dark vision of what can very well become of Earth if mankind goes on the way it has done for the last few centuries. Today, there are already structures on Earth similiar to the dreadful "Oxygénia Trust" with its one hundred lineages, "elites" who don't bother about the fate of billions of other humans; there is pollution and climate change which is both very well capable of turning Earth into Oxygénia if our species doesn't change the set course very soon. See what the future might be like, and let's hope and take actions that it's not too late already, that we still can get off the path we're on to now – the path to Oxygénia.
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"I want to warmly welcome the citizen of the distant Earth to the<br />
Central of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>. I hope you had a pleasant flight and will have<br />
a good time with us after your regrettable accident."<br />
So it was known here how he had come here, and presumably<br />
also when.<br />
He returned the handshake and said something about how<br />
surprisingly beautiful eyerything here was and that he didn't dare<br />
to dream about it.<br />
The young man nodded politely, and they took their seats in the<br />
car.<br />
There was no steering wheel in the car, only a dashboard. The<br />
host pushed a button, the doors of the car closed, and the car drove<br />
them comfortably along an excellently built winding road up a<br />
mountain cliff.<br />
Never before Peter had seen such a marvellous landscape. It was<br />
as if the most beautiful regions of Earth, the snowy summits, rocks,<br />
water falls, eucalyptus and palm tree groves, silver firs and laurel<br />
trees had come together. Embedded into the bright colorful,<br />
scenting lush nature were buildings here and there. Now it was a<br />
marble-stone palace, then a house that reminded him of a Finnish<br />
wood house, there a miracle completely made of glass that caught<br />
his astonishment. The street was lined by flowers and bushes. From<br />
the mountain cliff, creeks and water falls fell into the depth, and in<br />
the valley a beautiful lake reflected the sunlight. Sailing boats slid<br />
across its surface, and motor boats raced along with happy, waterskiing<br />
people. He felt like brought into a country which put with its<br />
beauty Switzerland, Hawaii or the Crimea into the shadows. Around<br />
the single buildings, people moved, strikingly few people compared<br />
to the great distances and the measures of the buildings.<br />
"Should I open the window?", the host asked politely.<br />
"Thank you", Peter said and nodded.<br />
The push of a button – and fresh air from outside, filled with<br />
wonderful flowery scent, flooded in. Even more silent than the<br />
noiseless driving was the landscape. They closely passed a lake with<br />
several water skiing pulling motor boats. The boats didn't hum or<br />
roar, they slid noiseless across the lake.<br />
At the same time, however, he heard other noises. Birds singing,<br />
music, the noise of branches in the wind, everything spread as well<br />
as the intoxicating pleasant scent of the air. Peter couldn't<br />
remember ever having felt so good. Unrest and uneasiness had<br />
already been gone in the plane, and now he even dared to ask the<br />
unkown man a question.<br />
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