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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29 – An evening under seven moons<br />
The moving carpet brought Peter back to his apartments. During<br />
the ride, he clearly determined that he passed completely different<br />
rooms than on the way to the dining hall. It deemed to him that<br />
they made the castle appear a labyrinth to him on purpose to show<br />
him that it would be of no use to get on his way on his own since he<br />
would get completely lost by trying so. But he hadn't that in mind<br />
anyway. He was tired and apathetic. As great as the lunch had<br />
been, how lovely and friendly the prince acted, as soon as he was<br />
alone again, he had that uneasy, uncomfortable feeling again.<br />
He was literally happy when the carpet stopped in front of the<br />
door of his now already familiar apartments and the door opened.<br />
He went from one room into the other, there were flowers<br />
everywhere; everywhere, conservatories and balconies opened up;<br />
then he reached the study. Undoubtedly, it looked very similiar to<br />
elegantly furnished studies on Earth. There were comfortable<br />
armchairs, a smoking table and some kind of huge writing desk.<br />
"Interesting that there are no books here", he said, surprised.<br />
The next moment, two boxes lifted from the desk plate. Peter sat<br />
down in an armchair and grabbed in the left box. It contained a<br />
catalog which was labelled "Fiction". The right box contained a<br />
catalog of scientific books. He pushed a white button on the box.<br />
On the desk plate, the subtitles of the scientific catalog lit up:<br />
biology, astrophysics, mathematics.<br />
"That's enough for me right now", Peter uttered, and the catalog<br />
disappeared.<br />
He grabbed into the pocket and took out the calendar.<br />
C a l e n d a r f o r t h e Y e a r o f M e r c y 1 2 0 7<br />
On the first page, the members of the family of the monarch<br />
Benefactor XIII were pictured. The king and the queen Daisylike<br />
with their two sons, princes Warrior and Valiant, and next to prince<br />
Warrior, his elected bride, princess Goldhair.<br />
On the second page was the map of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>, two semiglobes<br />
with seventeen continents and the ocean. So up here, they knew<br />
<strong>Oxygénia</strong> was not flat but a globe... they knew... and what else did<br />
they know? More and more curious and excited, Peter turned the<br />
pages.<br />
Precise maps, statistics, history... Where was he now? On the<br />
first map, <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s seventeen continents were shown. They were<br />
of about Australias size and shape. There was a single bigger<br />
continent, this one was bigger than Eurasia. The smaller continents<br />
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