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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The display went dark. The king looked at Bighead<br />
expectationful.<br />
"Majesty, five and a half months ago, a foreign spaceship was<br />
approaching our territory from the direction of the space station<br />
'AAA'. It slowed down between the zones B and C and went into an<br />
orbit."<br />
"And has it been shot down?", prince Valiant interrupted<br />
impatiently.<br />
"No, Highness. Our automatic defense only activates in Zone A-<br />
B."<br />
"So the range of our defense system should be extended without<br />
disturbing me at playing golf. Besides, security issues don't belong<br />
to my business at all but are the matter of the Successor."<br />
Bighead fell silent, embarrased.<br />
"Go ahead", the king said.<br />
"The spaceships hull had been hit by a meteor. The lifeform<br />
exited the vessel into space. Hanging on a cord, it touched zone B at<br />
this moment."<br />
"So there was just the limit of zone B! Astonishing!", prince<br />
Valiant called.<br />
"Highness, even from a million miles, the limit is just a<br />
millimeter", Bighead said, "a coincidence, but it was that way. The<br />
lifeform came into the range of our silver light missiles, and of<br />
course we instantly launched a silver light shell to bring it down<br />
unharmed and forward it to the zoological institute. Regrettably,<br />
however, it has vanished without a trace in the area of servant city<br />
Alpha... According to the report of the radar control, the silver light<br />
shell shattered at the moment it met the ground."<br />
After a short break, Bighead continued:<br />
"Some hours later the radio control reported that at wave length<br />
6.17 weak signals were sent from this very same area, with the<br />
repeating text: 'This is Peter, July, come in, this is Peter.' This<br />
signals probably originated by the being. It was decided to bring the<br />
being to the biological institute at the Grand Spring Festival, given<br />
it was still alive by then. All of this wouldn't have been that much<br />
important, if not..."<br />
Bighead took another break.<br />
"The frightening on this matter, which consequences we still<br />
can't really estimate, is that the being... has gotten from the servant<br />
city into the City of the Rememberers number Five."<br />
The king looked at Bighead, affected.<br />
"I don't understand."<br />
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