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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Surgery, in our society, doesn't mean that the surgeons are<br />
operating a sick person at a surgery table. Here, all operations are<br />
performed by machines, but the developing of new operations, the<br />
research of new procedures, especially the brain screening..."<br />
"Right", Peter replied and stared down at the picture. The<br />
working place had appeared. Complicated instruments, a male face<br />
watching them attentively. A face... the picture was clear, of perfect<br />
quality...<br />
"ORO 91", the manager said.<br />
It was an unknown face, a completely unknown face which didn't<br />
look the least like the ORO he knew.<br />
"... and what happens", Peter asked, swallowing hard, "if, say, a<br />
being... let's say, can't go on to do his work..." (Peter didn't muster<br />
the strength to ask the question as he meant it: "What happens if a<br />
being dies?")<br />
"It happens that a scholar isn't able to continue working at his<br />
tasks. Then, we keep the NFC chip, and he is reassigned back to a<br />
servant city. Before that, his memory is erased. His place is taken<br />
by another one. Since the designation at the chip doesn't specify the<br />
person but the working place, the successor gets the sign and the<br />
number of his predecessor. ORO 91, whom you just saw, always<br />
refers to the tasks, independently from the person which is<br />
assigned to it... We're working with a pretty plenty supply of<br />
scientists. And those scholars held at backup are in a continuous<br />
training. There are working places where we have only one or two as<br />
backup, but there are other areas where the wear, the loss, is<br />
extraordinarily huge due to inevitable contacts of the logical<br />
thoughts with the disturbing zones; there, we have twice or even<br />
thrice the number of active scientists as backup available... What<br />
else could I show you?"<br />
"It has been a bit tiring indeed. Understandable since all of this<br />
is unknown at our planet", Peter said with a sparing smile. "I<br />
believe it would be wise for me to get back to the palace."<br />
The manager rose, politely.<br />
"I would be glad if you would want to visit us again another<br />
time."<br />
"Thank you very much. Please allow me for one question. Maybe<br />
it would be useful if I would take a little walk out in the fresh air. Is<br />
there a park somewhere nearby here, a service area or a recreation<br />
area where I could for an hour..."<br />
"There are thousands of them", the manager laughed. "You do<br />
have a pocket calendar, or may I give you one?"<br />
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