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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'How I can get back to Earth', Peter thought, bitterly. Aloud,<br />
however, he said: "Whatever you want to show me... I'm interested<br />
in everything, and I am very grateful for everything..."<br />
The middle part of the institute was the computer central. It was<br />
enormously huge, with thousands of screens all around at the<br />
walls. Other screens continuously displayed scrolling data.<br />
Something was softly soughing, humming and ticking.<br />
"What you are seeing here is the brain of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>. Everything<br />
that happens on our planet is controlled from here. There are<br />
processes which we programmed five or six hundred years ago, and<br />
we only change them if at least ten out of twelve of our checking<br />
subcentrals deem this right and reasonable. But if it's necessary,<br />
we can change thousand different processes in a thousandth<br />
second, beginning with the smallest innovation up to the biggest<br />
invention."<br />
"And how did you become manager of the institute?"<br />
"We are one hundred managers and take over from each other<br />
every ten hours. As you may know, Mr. MacGulliver, there are one<br />
hundred families in <strong>Oxygénia</strong>, or, if you like to put it that way, one<br />
hundred tribes, and each tribe has one hundred living members.<br />
One member of each tribe is educated for manager of the Economy<br />
Control. If needed, the one hundred managers can come together<br />
and make important decisions. But luckily, the whole economy<br />
process built after the principles of our first king, Benefactor I., is<br />
so flawless that during the last twelvehundred and seven years, the<br />
manager's council had to come together only about four hundred<br />
times, and even then, mostly because of superfluous caution."<br />
"On our planet, there are also lots of machines... but I believe not<br />
nearly as many as in your central institute."<br />
The manager smiled, proudly.<br />
"I don't believe, either, that there is something like this<br />
somewhere in the Milky Way galaxy again. We are following what's<br />
going on on other planets as good as we can, learn from it and<br />
make use of that knowledge for our purposes. But please, if you<br />
want to follow me now into the observation tower."<br />
A noiseless elevator brought them in a hurry to a circular room.<br />
A push on a button, and the walls were gone and replaced by<br />
some glass-like, look-through material.<br />
"I may assume that you know the map of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>. Now we want<br />
to look at it from a vertical point of view."<br />
Peter looked down: he saw summits and the palaces of<br />
Oxygenville and, farther away, an orange colored billowing.<br />
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