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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37 – A frightening meeting<br />
Peter still sat on the edge of the rock and listened to the radio<br />
communication. He felt the almost irresistible urge to switch the<br />
device to send, to yell into it, only short: "July, be careful... July,<br />
watch out... This means grave danger..." But he knew that this was<br />
impossible, that he mustn't give away himself, that he still had to<br />
wait with the device... But for what? How could he have become this<br />
clueless, this helpless? ... The children around him noised around<br />
happily and jauntily.<br />
Suddenly, an urgent calling caught his attention.<br />
"Earth inhabitant, help me... Human, brother, help..."<br />
Peter almost jumped, startled.<br />
He understood the words. They were in the language of the twoheaded<br />
inhabitants of the planet F-317 of the Milky Way. For three<br />
centuries, Earth had close relations with this friendly planet. The<br />
language of F-317, or the Fire Planet, was taught at the universities<br />
of Earth, and delegations of both planets visited each other<br />
regularly. The planet had earned its name by the phenomenon that<br />
during dawn and dusk, its surface gleamed red like fire.<br />
Peter looked out for the source of the voice.<br />
He gazed down into the rock valley. A nude, two-headed,<br />
despaired being tried to climb up the by far too steep and smooth<br />
rock wall and waved to him.<br />
"Earth inhabitant... Do you understand my words? I'm held<br />
caged... Help me... Earth inhabitant, my name is... Do you<br />
understand me? Bring the message to my home that I was caged...<br />
tortured... They don't let me home... Earth inhabitant, help me...<br />
don't believe them... Answer me if you understand me... No, don't<br />
answer... you would get yourself in danger... Farewell, Earth<br />
inhabitant... Bring the message to my home world..."<br />
The children who watched over the edge had a really good time<br />
about the gesticulating little two-headed creature. They threw him<br />
sweets and oranges and clapped their hands.<br />
"Oh, how adorable, oh, how sweet..."<br />
"If you don't watch it, you'll grow two heads, too!", a somewhat<br />
older girl jokingly called to a little boy.<br />
Peter had nearly come to the point to turn the ring at his finger<br />
and yell into the sender. "July, leave me to my fate... Don't land,<br />
July, don't believe them, flee..." But he knew that this would be to<br />
no avail, that <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s radio control would catch and delete his<br />
despaired hails.<br />
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