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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Again, numbers followed. Peter couldn't determine their<br />
signification. Then... Then something followed which let Peter<br />
almost fall off the tree in horror.<br />
A thundering voice hailed the spaceship "Humanitas".<br />
And July responded to that hail.<br />
The communication was in the language of Earth.<br />
Peter was covered in sweat at his whole body as he listened to<br />
the strange dialogue with curious attention.<br />
This is "Humanitas"... You promised me that he will talk himself<br />
today.<br />
We ask for a little patience...<br />
You told me so two days ago...<br />
Two days ago? What did that mean, two days ago? So the radio<br />
connection was established for several days? Peter felt his blood<br />
freeze.<br />
Please, it's not possible yet. It's true that it is only a slight<br />
concussion, but we don't know...<br />
What concussion?, Peter asked himself, affected.<br />
At least one word so I can calm down...<br />
If you insist... Please, Mr. MacGulliver, if the doctor allows for it,<br />
speak a sentence...<br />
Shocked, Peter heard his own voice.<br />
July, dearest, we will meet soon, be patient in the spaceship...<br />
This were his own words, the ones he had spoken about a week<br />
ago to July. They had been recorded, re-arranged and now been<br />
replayed.<br />
He wanted to scream out loudly, to switch the device to send and<br />
call to July: Watch out, don't believe them, but luckily, he could<br />
grab a hold of himself. If he had spoken now, they both would have<br />
been lost without any hope.<br />
The communication went on.<br />
Your husband is in our hospital with a broken leg and a<br />
concussion since the accident, a voice said. So I repeat, there is no<br />
other possibility than for you to land at us... The landing will be in<br />
exactly seventy-two hours, we will guide your ship down with our<br />
instruments or, if necessary, you will get instructions from us how to<br />
steer the ship and how to set your instruments. In the meantime,<br />
please rest.<br />
The communication was terminated. Peter almost got<br />
unconscious in his excitement and the realization of his<br />
helplessness.<br />
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