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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his limbs were heavy as lead and his brain numb, then it was<br />
enough to think of July and his despair situation, and he felt new<br />
energy. Just like that, he had sat into the car with the hope of<br />
maybe finding a solution at the Central Economy Control, to get to<br />
know something that was important for his survival. Maybe he<br />
could discover something here at the dashboard of the car that<br />
could help him to escape. No, it couldn't be that he was completely<br />
lost. He had achieved the impossible with ON, he had gotten with<br />
him from the city of the Trunk Bearers to the City of the<br />
Rememberers. But where was ON now, and where was ORO, where<br />
were his friends? And where was his equipment, his oxygen<br />
replicator? The small sender and receiver, the only thing that was<br />
left to him, he wore at his finger, but he didn't dare to use it.<br />
The car drove up the winding roads; summits, forests, lakes and<br />
castles appeared and disappeared again. The sky was shining azure<br />
again. The speed of the vehicle increased more and more. There was<br />
no speedometer, but Peter realised at the landscape streaking by<br />
that the speed had multiplied by several times. Without an<br />
announcement, the vehicle rose up in the air. Peter felt that it<br />
retracted its wheels and was now flying as a jet.<br />
Soon he was looking down at the landscape from about two<br />
thousand meters above the ground. When the vehicle rose up in the<br />
air, he was surprised and stunned although from Earth, he knew<br />
vehicles that moved at three, four, five or even six different modes of<br />
transport. But on this planet, everything happened so unexpected,<br />
without any announcement or explanation.<br />
He had flown for maybe an hour at a great speed when the<br />
vehicle touched down again and continued to drive on a winding<br />
road. After a short time, it stopped in front of a huge complex of<br />
buildings.<br />
The main building was unpretentious, with smooth walls and<br />
without windows. It had a cylindrical tower from which thousands<br />
of metal rods rose, like TV antennae, and a giant radar was<br />
spinning.<br />
Peter got out of the vehicle. The door of the main entrance<br />
opened before him, and a polite man in a blue suit approached him.<br />
"I am the manager of the Central and its single employee at the<br />
same time. I would be glad if you felt good at us... Please tell me<br />
what you want to know."<br />
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