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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32 – Soiree at the princess<br />
Again, this pleasant clock strike.<br />
Unordered, the door to the bathroom opened.<br />
That was what reminded Peter that he had to get ready for the<br />
evening of the princess.<br />
Now, he wasn't puzzled anymore in the least that all his clothes<br />
were gone from the coucher in the bath when he left the water.<br />
Instead, a brand new gala suit laid there. According to <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s<br />
calendar, he was invited for dinner at eighteen o'clock, what<br />
corresponded to 21:36 o'clock when converted to Earth time. The<br />
cufflinks of his new shirt were watches again, and yet again, he<br />
found numerous little commodities in the pockets.<br />
He had some minutes left until he would have to leave, so he<br />
took a seat at the small table in the entrance room. He got the idea<br />
of asking the computer whether there were newspapers in<br />
<strong>Oxygénia</strong>.<br />
As answer, a batch of newspapers and magazines appeared on<br />
the table. The top one featured announcements regarding the ball of<br />
princess Goldhair and the preparations: the flower decoration and<br />
the main dishes of the event. A headline reported that a high visitor<br />
had arrived to <strong>Oxygénia</strong>: Mr. Peter MacGulliver from the far away<br />
planet Earth...<br />
'I should take such a newspaper back home!', Peter thought. His<br />
enthusiastic mood kept up as the escalator brought him to the<br />
main entrance of the castle where, again, the prince arrived at the<br />
same moment.<br />
"I don't find enough words of gratitude", Peter said. "I was able to<br />
speak to my wife: she is alright, and she's waiting for me... And this<br />
whole lovely welcome, the newspaper report..."<br />
"Not worth talking about. It's a pleasure and an honour to us",<br />
the prince said, smiling, and indicated for Peter to take a seat in the<br />
car that had just arrived.<br />
"I hope that some time, we can welcome your highness as a<br />
guest to Earth", Peter said. "And maybe we humans can help<br />
<strong>Oxygénia</strong>. For instance, in producing enough oxygen."<br />
"Why? Do you have the impression that the air here doesn't<br />
contain enough oxygen?", the prince asked with a strange smile.<br />
The car drove with them alongside a mountain ridge. The<br />
landscape was probably even more beautiful now than during the<br />
day. Five moons shone the sky, so no headlights were needed. They<br />
wouldn't have been necessary anyway since the radar equipment of<br />
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