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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38 – Now only acting can help<br />
The successor furthermore didn't find anything suspicious in<br />
Peters behaviour, only maybe that his guest was pale and had deep<br />
eye bags.<br />
"Are you tired?", the prince asked.<br />
"I'm unused to the many balls, the dancing and the many events.<br />
At home, I live quieter. I'd like to do more sports exercises and<br />
swim."<br />
"How about the hunt?"<br />
"With pleasure", Peter replied and thought that at it, there would<br />
again be the opportunity for radio receiving.<br />
Because now, all of his mind was occupied with the thought that<br />
soon, July would be brought down with the spaceship "Humanitas"<br />
to <strong>Oxygénia</strong>. Maybe even in a few hours already. Or was she here<br />
already, caged somewhere...?<br />
How could he get to know for certain?<br />
How could he hurry towards her? If the mighty ones of <strong>Oxygénia</strong><br />
wouldn't have evil plans, they would have long since told him that<br />
July was preparing for landing. But every time he had asked the<br />
prince in the meantime about the spaceship and why there was no<br />
radio connection, he had smiled at him trustworthyly and told him<br />
that the cosmic storms were about to fade, he'd ask for a little more<br />
patience... maybe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow... And this<br />
while there was a permanent radio connection between July and the<br />
local Central Control.<br />
It always drove him insane. 'They will lure July down and... It is<br />
possible that she will be... Everything is possible here.'<br />
Shivering, Peter thought about the native of the Fire Planet who<br />
was caged in a zoo. He thought about the fate of ORO and ON, and<br />
he thought about the Trunk Bearers. At this point, he made the<br />
decision to slough his paralyzing powerlessness and attempt the<br />
impossible.<br />
He had to act as if he would like to stay in <strong>Oxygénia</strong> as long as<br />
possible, had to show more interest for their art, literature and the<br />
customs and traditions.<br />
Satisfied, the prince observed that Peter was in better mood. He<br />
asked questions and liked to talk about the life and the traditions<br />
on Earth. And when the prince asked if he would like to accompany<br />
him to a literature evening, he said that nothing could be of greater<br />
interest to him.<br />
Before lunch, Peter had a bath again.<br />
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