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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26 – Like in an old English castle<br />
Peter MacGullivers young wife, July, was a philologist and<br />
especially fond of ancient English novels. She often had talked to<br />
Peter about her reading, these old romantic novels, in most of which<br />
some spooks and ghosts appeared. He could remember their<br />
heartily laughs about that, which great feeling it had to be to stay in<br />
castle haunted by ghosts, if the door or the windows opened<br />
unexpected or a mysterious voice was heard in the chimney...<br />
Well, now he had his spook, his ghost, the enchanted castle.<br />
Peter stopped in the middle of the spacious room and didn't<br />
know what to do. On Earth, the third millennium had been the<br />
begin of an epoch of peace and wealth, and now, in the year 3069,<br />
in the first century of the fourth millennium, life of people was<br />
really happy and pleasant. They had nice flats, comfortable,<br />
spacious houses, but this unbelievable luxury... such furniture,<br />
pictures and wall carpets were only to be seen in museums on<br />
Earth where they were common property and everyone could enjoy<br />
them... But so much carving, so much ornamentals, the work of so<br />
many hands in one single room!... And from this first room, doors<br />
opened up to all sides: to balconies, to other rooms and other halls.<br />
There were no such cleverly built corners in the Topkapi Serail in<br />
Istanbul, the old castle of the Turkish sultans, no such<br />
unexpectedly appearing hanging gardens like in these chambers.<br />
One could gaze in awe for a hundred years if...<br />
Well, if this all wouldn't have been so creepy.<br />
He approached a door: it opened noiseless. He stepped back: the<br />
door closed. He approached a table: on its surface , polished glasses<br />
and bottles full of beverages appeared. He went to another table –<br />
its surface opened, and a bowl with fruits came out. Peter couldn't<br />
resist, he took a fruit from the bowl and took a bite. The taste<br />
reminded him of the aroma of Earth fruits, and yet it was different.<br />
It was as if he had tried an apple, orange, banana, mango, grapes<br />
and pineapple at the same time.<br />
Somewhere, a short melody sounded, very short, like the strike<br />
of a clock.<br />
In two hours, the prince expected him for lunch! But how long<br />
was an hour here? Where, through which door, in which direction<br />
he had to go?<br />
He paced along the room again, and as if even his thoughts were<br />
read here (maybe this was the case indeed?), a wallpapered door<br />
which he hadn't noticed before, which maybe hadn't even been<br />
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