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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surrounded it like a wreath, and the giant Black Ocean separated<br />
the continents from each other. Eleven continents were marked as<br />
uninhabited. The biggest part of the Large Continent was a plain.<br />
Here in the plain were the servant cities, marked with grey squares<br />
and divided by letters and numbers. Peter found zone Alpha.<br />
Somewhere there had to be the servant city from which he had<br />
started. No paths or roads were shown on the map. There was no<br />
trace of the Secret Path. Also, the map didn't tell anything about the<br />
cave system that had opened up at the Grand Spring Festival, and<br />
in vain he studied the plan of the City of the Rememberers, no locks<br />
or moving sidewalks were drawn. The middle and the northern part<br />
of the Great Continent were hilly. According to the map, this was<br />
where the Cities of the Rememberers were situated. There were<br />
other Cities of the Rememberers on the continents II, III, IV and V.<br />
These cities appeared to be completely independent from each<br />
other; the fact that they belonged together was only recognizable by<br />
how regularly they were set up. Peter didn't know in which City of<br />
the Rememberers he had been exactly since there where three of<br />
them not far from zone Alpha. How much this "not far" might have<br />
been indeed he couldn't determine. There was a scale on the map,<br />
but he could only see the bee line between the cities. The map<br />
didn't state where rivers, valleys, canyons or walkable paths might<br />
have been.<br />
Amongst the smaller continents was one which didn't bear a<br />
number. According to the map, it had the highest mountains. It was<br />
comparatively far away from the inhabited continents and included<br />
two inland seas. One was called Blue Sea, the other one Living<br />
Water. On this continent was Oxygenville which lowest spot was<br />
two thousand meters above the sea level.<br />
The next page showed the city map of Oxygenville. Peter studied<br />
it with full attention. This map was not as they were usually on<br />
Earth, it was a tiny picture book. Peters exploring eyes found giant<br />
mountains, unbelievably beautiful landscapes with springs, water<br />
falls, motorways carved into the rocks, parks and magnificient<br />
palaces. He even found prince Warriors castle, and after a short<br />
look, he recognized the square where he had arrived, with its figures<br />
and fountains. Interestingly enough, there was no hint of an airport<br />
nearby. Maybe it wasn't the right square after all? Peter looked<br />
again and again at castles, palaces, the houses in the forest, the<br />
arenas, figures, squares, winding roads that led into the mountains<br />
and the broad, seamed with trees and flowers streets. None was like<br />
the other, every sculpture, every memorial and every waterfall had a<br />
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