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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34 – Hunt – with a surprising prey<br />
Peter had been in Oxygenville for a week already, and his time<br />
flew by filled with continuous entertaimment. The young successor<br />
acted as if he would take Peter for a friend of his own rank, he let<br />
him invite everywhere and took him to water skiing competitions, to<br />
dance events and ballett shows. The dance group consisted of<br />
young people from the Hundred Families. Dance, singing,<br />
instrumental music and art were taught to the younger members by<br />
the elder generations as family traditions; anything else, from<br />
handicraft to high mathematics, was taught by learning machines.<br />
The newspapers and magazines, just like the sports review in the<br />
TV, occupied themselves extensively with the winners of<br />
competitions, brought long articles about the derby at the Soughing<br />
Lake wich had been running great, and it was mentioned everytime<br />
that His Majesty King Benefactor XIII with his wife, the two sons<br />
and Mister Peter MacGulliver from Earth had taken part. The<br />
winners got cups, medals or laurel branches as rewards. Many wore<br />
the medals as awards. Peter was a good observer, but after the first<br />
week, he was barely able to distinguish the faces of his new<br />
acquaintances.<br />
"I am in an embarrassing situation", he said during dinner to the<br />
successor. "Just this morning, I greeted two young men at the<br />
tennis square as team mates, but it turned out I had never met<br />
them before. On the other hand, I passed by in a quite unpolite<br />
manner Miss Lily-of-the-Valley without greeting her, but I had<br />
danced with her at the ball of the princess."<br />
"No wonder", the prince laughed. "We all look much alike here.<br />
When the computers determine the future partner for the newborn<br />
boy or girl, they also consider the recombination of the blood within<br />
the Hundred Families. This doesn't just lead to an optical<br />
similiarity, but also to an inner one and is a guarantee for a well<br />
balanced administration of the state. Did you, dear Peter, already<br />
read the memories of our king Benefactor I.? He put down this basic<br />
principles in there."<br />
"Thank you very much for this advice. I will read it", Peter said.<br />
But a week had already gone by, and he hadn't made any advance<br />
at all in his knowledge about <strong>Oxygénia</strong>. He would have loved to<br />
attend a meeting of the Academy of Sciences. The successor had<br />
mentioned that he would be expected there and that they would like<br />
to ask him questions about the life on Earth. But the days went by<br />
with cocktail parties, dance, horse races, garden festivals in<br />
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