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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"Mr. MacGulliver, don't you dance?", a young lady asked and<br />
smiled at him.<br />
"Why yes, I'd love to..."<br />
It was a waltz-like dance. The young lady, wearing a light blue<br />
dress, seemed to float in Peters arms.<br />
"Take care", the girl said.<br />
"For what?"<br />
"If your face touched mine, you'd have to marry me."<br />
"I'm married already", Peter said.<br />
"I know, I couldn't become the wife to a man from Earth anyway.<br />
Not to mention that my future husband was determined already at<br />
my birth."<br />
"Is this the usual way here?"<br />
"Yes, for the balance of the families, there is a certain order for<br />
marriages. And that is not a bad thing. My groom is very nice. Well,<br />
if the engaged ones do oppose the decision very much, the king may<br />
cancel it, but usually, we get along with it. We're learning together<br />
from young age on, play together, and that way, anyone is a good<br />
familiar to the other one, and a good friend. And all are beautiful<br />
and healthy."<br />
Puzzled, Peter looked at the girl. He thought she was joking or<br />
wanted to make him believe something since she knew he was from<br />
a distant planet. But the lady smiled.<br />
"You don't believe it? It's even set how many childrens we can<br />
get, and when. In <strong>Oxygénia</strong>, ten thousand Createds are allowed to<br />
live at the same time, no more and no less."<br />
"And how is this... how can such be controlled?"<br />
"Oh, the computers are calculating it... we, for instance, will have<br />
two children. And since the average life span expectation is three<br />
hundred years..."<br />
"Really? With us on Earth, it is only half as long. And the other<br />
inhabitants of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>?"<br />
The young girl made an affected, a bit bewildered face.<br />
"You mean the beings? Those whom we give oxygen? I think they<br />
exist about thirty years, as long as our dogs. Oh, you need to see<br />
my great hounds! Did you get the invitation for the derby at the<br />
Soughing Lake? It is tomorrow, at the race track of prince Valiant...<br />
and the day after tomorrow, there's a fox hunt..."<br />
"Yes... yes..."<br />
"You, man from Earth, you don't even listen to me." The girl<br />
laughed. "What is it with you?"<br />
"I'm so unused to all of this. I've been a little dizzy..."<br />
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