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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43 – Inside the aircraft<br />
At Peters approach, a wide glass door opened automatically.<br />
Peter entered, and the door closed behind him.<br />
He got into a giant hall decorated with apple green tiling – the<br />
same one where he had arrived weeks ago: the main hall of the<br />
secret airport. He didn't see signs or letters anywhere. But a pale<br />
green beam of light in front of him at the ground appeared like a<br />
carpet, as if it were an orientation sign. Peter followed the light<br />
beam and crossed the empty hall.<br />
He met no one, didn't hear a single voice.<br />
Again, an automatic door opened before and closed behind him.<br />
Then a third one opened and closed. Peter now stood at the<br />
runway. At the same or a very similiar one like the one on which he<br />
had arrived.<br />
Several meters away from the exit, a silvery shining aircraft sat<br />
on the runway. When he had flown up here from the City of the<br />
Rememberers, Peter hadn't had the chance to look at the plane in<br />
the thick fog. And when he had landed up here, it simply hadn't<br />
come to his mind to turn around. Now, he looked at the aircraft,<br />
astonished. Had it looked the same? Was it the same plane? And if<br />
it was, were his calculations logical? Did they intend to send this<br />
plane to July?<br />
He had no other choice than to enter the plane. As he<br />
approached, silver colored stairs were extended. Peter entered the<br />
lowest stair, the door of the aircraft opened, the stairs moved up.<br />
Peter went in, and the door of the plane closed.<br />
He thought. Should he give the order: City of the Rememberers?<br />
Or should he order the point BX 3' 4" which was determined for the<br />
landing? Should he even say anything at all?<br />
But none of this was necessary anymore. At precisely 11.30, the<br />
aircrafts engine quietly started to hum, and the plane went up in<br />
the air.<br />
Through the window, one could see the wonderful blue sky<br />
shine.<br />
He could see Oxygenville with its unforgettable colors, the<br />
marvellous buildings and slim towers. If he had made better use of<br />
the time, he could have seen so much more...!<br />
Within a few moments, the city was gone from his view.<br />
Now he saw mountains, forests, blue lakes and foaming<br />
waterfalls, and he receded more and more. The landscape below<br />
wasn't visible anymore already. Now, Peter recalled. When he was<br />
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