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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40 – To try the impossible<br />
As often as Peter was alone even for a moment, he switched the<br />
ring to receive – of course never inside the microphone-equipped<br />
palaces, but always outside in the open – and listened excited to the<br />
radio signals.<br />
... In forty hours...<br />
According to this, July had two days left until the landing.<br />
He hadn't gotten a map since. During the last two days, he had<br />
taken more baths on purpose and changed his clothes several<br />
times. Every time, he got everything, a comfortable shirt, fitting<br />
shoes, a pocket knife, a comb and writing utensils, but no calendar<br />
and no map. Orientation was made – whether coincidentally or on<br />
purpose – impossible to him. He had also observed that the<br />
sounding clock strikes in his rooms didn't come anymore, only the<br />
beginning of the meals was announced by a gong.<br />
Peter was at the tennis square. He had played until now.<br />
"Now you play a match, I'm watching", he called towards some<br />
young men and stopped at the edge of the square. Hastily, he<br />
activated his receiver: numbers, more numbers and signals that<br />
were incomprehensible to him.<br />
From the other side of the square, the prince approached.<br />
"How is our dear guest? You seem to be a bit distracted today.<br />
Don't you want to continue playing?"<br />
"Thank you... I don't know how, I feel a bit exhausted today."<br />
"There, I have a suggestion that may be refreshing to you. Do you<br />
like fishing?"<br />
"I don't know what that is."<br />
"Oh, it's a wonderful pastime. I'd like to invite you to the Mirror<br />
Pond, there is my little water kingdom. I have some official business<br />
to do tomorrow, but you, however, can get to the shore in the early<br />
morning already, you'll find my fishing equipment there."<br />
"What do I find there?"<br />
"Well, a long fishing rod... with some line at the end...", and the<br />
prince drew the rod with the hook and showed how the silvery<br />
shining fish swallows it, how it shakes, how his silvery scales<br />
shiver, how it beats around itself when pulled from the water.<br />
"And what becomes out of the fish?", Peter asked, shivering.<br />
"If you want, roast it. If you want, leave it there or throw it back<br />
into the pond. It really doesn't matter. It's a sport, a game... Try it.<br />
Spend two or three days at the Mirror Pond, it's going to refresh<br />
you, brighten you, and you'll feel about ten years younger."<br />
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