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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04 – Somewhere, but where?<br />
Peter MacGulliver hadn't seen the flashing. His last memory was<br />
him repairing the hull of the spaceship. 'Okay, I can get back in'<br />
had been his las thoughts.<br />
Then he found himself in the middle of the square.<br />
The square looked like a children's playground area. On small<br />
sand hills, children were sitting and played with their little buckets.<br />
Around them, on benches, adults were sitting, they took small<br />
round cans out of their pockets and tinkered around with them.<br />
Others got up and went away. And still, this place was not like on<br />
Earth. But why?<br />
Peter settled himself on a bench and tried to figure.<br />
Something was strange... really odd.. so totally<br />
incomprehensible. Maybe he just dreamed? He had just been<br />
aboard the spaceship "Humanitas" together with July, the ship was<br />
hit by a meteor... Then he had gone outside... and then... Where<br />
was he now? Had he been returned to Earth? But this landscape,<br />
this was not Earth. Something was missing. Something that would<br />
have been there on Earth... Colors! Here, nothing had any color.<br />
Here only was a dim light, a phase between night and day,<br />
everything was grey and lit in a monotone way. And that was also<br />
the case for the clothes of the people, and their faces... But right,<br />
their faces weren't to be seen. They all wore breathers, the adults as<br />
well as the little children. And they moved so strangely, so very<br />
slowly. And there were no animals. Neither a cat nor a dog. Nor<br />
even a sparrow in a tree... But there were no trees, either.<br />
'I'm dreaming', Peter thought and slowly rose to his feet. Fact<br />
was that he was wearing his space suit, a breather, a replicator and<br />
some instruments. So he had left the spaceship... had fixed the<br />
damage... and then, something had happened. He was no longer in<br />
the spaceship... but somewhere. Where was he?<br />
He felt dizzy, tired, and his heartbeat was slow and unsteady.<br />
His wristband multi-purpose instrument indicated respiratory<br />
disorder and arrhythmia. With a reflexive move, Peter pressed the<br />
small button at the device at his chest, and the filter of his breather<br />
cleaned itself, and the device filled itself with fresh, oxygen-rich air.<br />
His pulse returned to normal, and his confused thoughts slowly<br />
began to clear.<br />
He wasn't aboard the spaceship "Humanitas" and not back on<br />
dear old Earth, that much was for sure. But where was he?<br />
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