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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He hadn't even noticed the sun was already in the zenith. He felt<br />
no hunger and sank down in despaired brooding.<br />
Now he decided to stay outside as much as he could so he could<br />
continue to follow the radio communication. Maybe... maybe he<br />
could take some action. Now, he congratulated himself for his<br />
caution not to try to hail July until now because towards the<br />
outside, all signals were shielded, and he would have given away<br />
himself before the right time...<br />
For hours, he was so deep in his thoughts that he was startled<br />
when the horns sounded again and thus announced the end of the<br />
hunt.<br />
As if he was sleepwalking, he climbed down from the tree. The<br />
water and the food on the tray remained back, almost untouched.<br />
He had the chills, felt a fever the next moment, but he decided to<br />
restrain himself so his excitement wasn't to be seen to the others.<br />
The moving path at the bottom of the tree now moved backwards<br />
so he hadn't to look for the right path.<br />
The forest was cool, a slight wind moved the leaves of the trees.<br />
The air was filled with the pleasant scents of the evening, the moons<br />
rose in the sky, and Peter felt that there would be no being more<br />
unhappy than him in the whole universe.<br />
By the time he returned to the clearing at the moving path, a<br />
giant campfire was already burning there. Around the moss-made<br />
throne of the king, now girls stood, with floral wreaths in their<br />
hands – for the best riflemen. The horns sounded without a break.<br />
The hunters put their prey down in the grass and stood proudly,<br />
their rifles on their shoulders, between their hounds and the dead<br />
animals. Peter was the only one who came without a rifle, without<br />
prey, sweaty and exhausted.<br />
The horns faded out, and the king spoke up.<br />
"The gold medal of today's hunt is earned by our guest, the man<br />
from Earth, Peter MacGulliver, who showed a great deal of selfcontrol<br />
and let the tiger deer with the golden antler for His Majesty!"<br />
"Horray!", the hunters shouted.<br />
Now, Peter didn't understand anything anymore.<br />
The young hunters next to him shook his hand. The tiger deer<br />
which had raced past his post wore golden rings at the ends of his<br />
antler. It would have been the biggest rudeness to shoot this wild<br />
from the king. Surely, only very few would have been able to resist<br />
the temptation... Hooray, hooray, hooray...<br />
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