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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28 – Does Peter meet friends?<br />
Peter sat on the couch so exhausted as if he had climbed onto<br />
mountains for three days and three nights. But he had sat there for<br />
just a few moments when he heard the pleasant clock strike again<br />
and then a low echoing gong. The double door opened, and Peter<br />
went out. A moving carpet started to move along with him, through<br />
halls and hallways, up some escalators and down others. He was<br />
brought into a spacious luxurious dining room. It was set for two<br />
persons. The moment his moving carpet arrived at the door and it<br />
opened before him, the door on the opposite side of the hall opened,<br />
too, and the smiling Successor entered.<br />
The prince waved at his guest friendly, and they took their seats<br />
opposite each other on the splendid set table.<br />
Next to each set laid the menu, printed in golden letters, the<br />
sequence of the foods and beverages of the royal lunch.<br />
Surprised, Peter looked at the parchment menu.<br />
The prince looked over to him, smiling.<br />
"Yes, today's menu was already printed in the language of<br />
Earth", he said, still smiling, "and you see, you even understand<br />
what I'm saying."<br />
"Indeed", Peter replied, surprised. "And I just wanted to tell you<br />
that my translator has vanished... and as I realise now, you also<br />
understand me despite me using the language of Earth."<br />
"And I the one of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>. But we understand each other. The<br />
translator is woven into your suit. With your friendly permission, we<br />
examinated your translator and copied it. A very clever device!<br />
Apparently, there are completely different yet not less insteresting<br />
instruments built on your planet than on ours. Ours are light,<br />
really tiny, flexible and comfortably fit into the pocket or the collar<br />
of the suit. Before I forget, I have to beg for your pardon if you took<br />
offense in us giving you clean clothing instead of your belongings<br />
from Earth. We will gladly put everything at your disposal you'll<br />
need , and the moment you depart back to your ship, you will get<br />
everything back that is yours."<br />
The prince looked at Peter with such an open and friendly face<br />
that he once again didn't know what he was up to. If they had evil<br />
intentions, they could already have killed him or have him thrown<br />
to the Trunk Bearers. They could have him put on a chain and give<br />
him to a research institute, or put in a cage to show him off to<br />
curious ones... Only his fear, his impatience and his distrust<br />
caused his bad emotions. It was only logical and natural that his<br />
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