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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there, opened. It led into a wonderful bathroom with a huge pool<br />
that was also fitting for swimming. Next to the pool stood<br />
comfortable loungers, snow white soft towels were ready, and on a<br />
table were fragrant soaps, salves and other hygienic articles.<br />
Peter put off his shoes and slipped off his clothes. What a great<br />
feeling to bathe in this shining, clean pool!<br />
He couldn't resist his curiousity, took a drop of the warm liquid<br />
on his hand and analyzed it. It was fresh spring water with the<br />
scent of woodland herbs, thirty degrees Celsius warm – an excellent<br />
bathing water.<br />
Peter splashed in the pool with great pleasure. First, he cleaned<br />
himself, then he made some swimming movements. At this<br />
moment, the water started moving, began to wave in the pool and<br />
became some degrees cooler.<br />
""This is a fairy land!", Peter called.<br />
Again, he heard the melodic clock strike, he had to finish his<br />
bath.<br />
He climbed out of the pool – and almost fainted with scare.<br />
The lounger where he had put his clothes and equipment now<br />
was empty.<br />
The clothes he had brought from Earth were gone, as was his<br />
sidebag with the breather; the omniscope, the oxygen replicator, his<br />
radio device, his compass and his chronometer... all had vanished.<br />
In horror, he stood at the edge of the pool. He didn't even realise<br />
that the air was getting warmer, that a gentle, good smelling breeze<br />
came up which dried his body completely before he had even<br />
touched one of the soft towels.<br />
'What happens to me? I've been lured into a trap! I'm caged! My<br />
instruments...' Now he had no orientation at all. Without the<br />
interplanetary translator... without oxygen...<br />
In his panic, it took him a while to realise a cabinet had opened<br />
in which instead of his vanished clothes and his equipment new<br />
shoes, underwear and a snow white suit were ready. An elegant suit<br />
made of comfortably soft fabric, perfectly to his size.<br />
He had no other chioce, he got dressed.<br />
He began to sweat. He grabbed for a cloth to dry his face and<br />
was thinking that his shaver had also disappeared.<br />
Stunned, he looked at the cloth: by the light, drying movement,<br />
his stubbles were gone. The fragrant cloth which was impregnated<br />
with chemicals had removed his beard from his face and then<br />
covered the skin with a pleasant, scenting salve.<br />
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