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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And he didn't dream. He was absolutely sure he didn't dream. He<br />
was on an unknown celestial body. Had he been landed here<br />
coincidentally or by alien will? Was he free or a prisoner? He had to<br />
contact somebody.<br />
Some young people approached the square. Judging by human<br />
standards, they were juveniles. They wore grey overalls and gas<br />
masks. But the gas masks did not cover their eyes, they more<br />
looked like a trunk: the mask sat only on the nose, and the long<br />
pleated hose led to a container which they wore on the back, which<br />
meant they had a good vision. The mouth was only protected by a<br />
light gauze.<br />
Peter approached them and waved. The juveniles looked at him<br />
indifferently and moved on. Now, a young woman came across the<br />
square. Peter waved to her because he could not talk through his<br />
space helmet. The woman moved on just the same indifferent way<br />
as the juveniles before. Peter pulled out his space suit and just kept<br />
a breather in front of his face. Luckily, today's modern space suits,<br />
including all technical equipment, weren't much heavier than a<br />
pound. In a few moments, he had stored away his suit in the side<br />
bag. He did it all there in the open space. Meanwhile, some people<br />
passed him without taking any notice.<br />
Peter realised that they were all going in a certain direction,<br />
towards a nearby cube-shaped building. What might have been<br />
there? A restaurant? A train station? A hotel? A metro stration? No<br />
matter what, he decided to take the same direction. Walking was as<br />
easy as it was on Earth, just as he had expected, because the<br />
planets' mass was about the same as Earth's, and so was the<br />
gravity. But at the same time, he began to feel a dull headache, and<br />
his omniscope indicated a decrease of his blood pressure. He<br />
pushed the small button on the side of the omniscope, and soon<br />
enough felt a mixture of sugar, adrenaline and caffeine flood into<br />
his body.<br />
Without any hurry, he blended into the the people's stroll.<br />
He found his guess to be correct. He came into a hall with<br />
numerous doors with symbols on them. The symbols almost looked<br />
like the small pictures in kindergartens which help the little ones to<br />
know whom the towel with the bunny, the lily or the red triangle<br />
belongs... On getting closer, he could get a clear view of some of the<br />
symbols. One showed an eating man, another indicated for a<br />
shower room, and a third one showed a bed.<br />
First, he entered the showers.<br />
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