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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'A trap', Peter thought and said aloud: "Thank you very much.<br />
This is great, but how do I get to the Mirror Pond? I didn't get a<br />
calendar with a map recently."<br />
"Indeed?", the prince asked with a surprised face expression. "I'm<br />
going to give orders. It seems it has been forgotten."<br />
'Forgotten? Here? The computers?', Peter thought.<br />
"But by the way, what do you need a map for, dear friend? It's<br />
enough to give your car the instruction: T-3, and it will bring you<br />
there..."<br />
"I thank you very much for the invitation. I'll be there tomorrow<br />
in the morning."<br />
"Well, meanwhile we'll meet for dinner."<br />
For dinner, this evening even more spicy, tasty and numbing<br />
food and beverages than usual were served, and the prince asked<br />
even more questions than usually. What he had seen in <strong>Oxygénia</strong><br />
until now? What he had liked and what not? And then,<br />
unexpectedly, he looked Peter straight into the eyes.<br />
"I have never asked you before, dear Peter, how you have gotten<br />
into the City of the Rememberers?"<br />
"When I crashed on your planet, I was unconscious. Later, I tried<br />
to get orientation. I found myself between strange, trunk bearing<br />
beings in a grey concrete city, but as far as I remember, I already<br />
told about that. I tried to speak to those beings, to communicate<br />
with them... Back then, I still had my radio device... and I tried to<br />
send radio signals. I didn't get an answer. It was of no use to speak<br />
to the Trunk Bearers... But I had oxygen and my equipment, so I<br />
got ony my way just on good luck. I walked for a long time, and<br />
when I get into inhabited space again, I found myself in a city from<br />
where you brought me here with a plane. Many details have<br />
completely failed me. Presumably I suffered a concussion when I<br />
landed."<br />
"And how did you get to ORO?"<br />
"I don't know who ORO is. I knocked at a house... I got help...<br />
Then I got the instruction to get to a moving sidewalk. It brought me<br />
to the aircraft."<br />
'He's lying', the prince stated.<br />
'They want to lure me into a trap', Peter thought. 'He doesn't<br />
even flinch... You lied to July I had a concussion.'<br />
"And what dou you plan for tomorrow?", the prince asked. "I<br />
heard you got numerous invitations again."<br />
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