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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ought up from the City of the Rememberers, the dark fog<br />
suddenly had lit up, then everything had started to glow in a pink<br />
aura until all of a sudden, he had seen the brightly shining blue<br />
sky. There, at the edge of the horizon, the pink-purple glowing<br />
appeared, but it appeared so strange as if it was a closing dome or a<br />
ring which got bigger and bigger but fastened around him at the<br />
same time. He jumped, startled: without a warning, a speaker<br />
sounded.<br />
You are approaching the ion curtain! In two minutes, the radio<br />
connection will get lost. If you noticed any irregularity, report it now!<br />
We repeat for the last time: bring up the being alive. The course of the<br />
spaceship is marked with a silver arrow. The blue line is your flight<br />
course. Code number three. Leave the spaceship at the spot of its<br />
landing. Execute routine RG (YFK) JJCK. The plane will start back<br />
tomorrow at 11.30...<br />
Deep silence.<br />
The sender was quiet, but the nose of the aircraft literally drilled<br />
into a sparkling, pink-purple wreath of light. The plane's windows<br />
almost seemed to glow – but all of this only lasted for the blink of an<br />
eye, then the windows became dark; foggy, grey-brown nebulas and<br />
clouds billowed, the clouds became darker and darker, and nothing<br />
was to be seen anymore; here, the fairy kingdom of the colors and<br />
the light was over. Peter felt his heart tighten: he had returned to<br />
the scary, real world of this planet. And without any warning, he felt<br />
his courage fade away. Where should he find July here, and if he<br />
found her, how and where to could he flee with her?<br />
The outside world grew darker every moment while at the same<br />
time a pale green lighting began to shimmer at the planes<br />
dashboard. It reminded a bit of the screens of portable computer<br />
devices...<br />
The handheld device! It had to be somewhere in the looted bag.<br />
'It won't work like that!' During the first minutes of the flight, he<br />
had only mulled and stared in front of him instead of searching<br />
through the content of the bag which he had taken with him. Now<br />
he opened it. He found things he knew and others he had no idea<br />
of. A breather, an oxygen replicator, refreshment tabs and a<br />
carefully packaged SD card.<br />
Peter took it out. The armrest of his seat automatically moved<br />
out to reveal a card slot. He inserted the storage card.<br />
The dashboard transformed into a screen. On it, dancing green<br />
streaks appeared, incomprehensible figures and letters, and the<br />
whole thing was accompanied by an indistinctable, unclear text.<br />
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