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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fabulous orchid forests... and now, there was the royal hunt<br />
scheduled for the early morning today...<br />
Peter had never taken part in a hunt. On Earth, this pleasure<br />
had been discontinued over a thousand years ago. The number of<br />
wildlife animals had alarmingly decreased.<br />
They were now kept in huge national parks where they could be<br />
watched through binoculars. From time to time, the TV made<br />
documentaries about them with cameras equipped with powerful<br />
zoom factors, but to kill them for pleasure only or hunt them was<br />
strictly interdict. Just as that, no bull or cock fights existed<br />
anymore. Peter had turned the invitation back and forth with some<br />
disgust. He'd have much rather stayed in the castle with some<br />
interesting books or had visited the Central Economy Control where<br />
<strong>Oxygénia</strong>s economy, millions of machines, were controlled from.<br />
But of course he had to take part in the royal hunt.<br />
Instead of the clock strike, he was woken by a hunting horn – at<br />
two o'clock in the morning already.<br />
The bath water was somewhat cooler than usual, and he felt a<br />
bit more refreshed after the bath than the days before. For<br />
breakfast, especially tasty and spiced food was served, and a hot<br />
beverage which reminded him of japanese Sake, a rice whine. He<br />
wore a green suit, like the leaves in the wood, and light, brown<br />
hunting boots. Down at the entrance, a green car waited for them.<br />
"Isn't it somewhat bothersome to Your Highness to always be<br />
occupied with me?", Peter asked.<br />
The prince smiled.<br />
"You are a polite man, dear Peter. I'm sure what you mean is<br />
that sometimes, you wish for a different program than permanently<br />
be in my company. I believe your wish is reasonable since I see that<br />
with all the invitations and programs, you already know how to<br />
handle them. I mentioned it at the first day already, there is a green<br />
button on the desk in your working room. If you want to go<br />
somewhere on your own, push it, and the car is at your disposal.<br />
You simply tell it your destination in your language, and the car will<br />
bring you there. Where do you want to go?"<br />
"Quite frankly, I'd be interested in the methods of Economy<br />
Control..."<br />
"I always enjoy your company... But please, go there on your<br />
own, and if you want, you can visit the institute tomorrow already."<br />
"I'd like to do so even more because I think I can get back to my<br />
spaceship in a few days..."<br />
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