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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the spaceship "Humanitas", to July, to the escape, and the tunnel<br />
system running nearly parallel, marked in red, was the moving path<br />
that led into the City number Five of the Rememberers. There, yes,<br />
in this direction, was the Central Square, and to the right of it was<br />
the canyon; there, ON, his wife Sunshine and Little ON were<br />
vegetating... He held the key of the secret in his hand, the<br />
blueprints and the maps. What a power, what a weapon could they<br />
be in the hands of the Rememberers!<br />
In excitement, he broke out in sweat. What if he wouldn't get on<br />
the blue path but instead went into the City of the Rememberers...?<br />
Which consequences would it have? In Oxygenville, everything<br />
would be discovered in a few hours. They would arrest July... If he<br />
could somehow notify July that she should escape... He had no<br />
right to pull July, too, into doom. But did he have the right to<br />
escape and leave ON and his friends to their fate?<br />
No, he couldn't act any other way. He had to get to July, to the<br />
ship, and had to attempt the escape... It was entirely possible that<br />
the blueprints and schemes weren't of any use to the refugees after<br />
all. How much time did he have for his escape? When would the car<br />
at the Mirror Pond in Oxygenville be discovered? Maybe it was even<br />
suspicious that he hadn't sent any radio communication from the<br />
plane?<br />
His thoughts were indistinctable and unclear. July had already<br />
been landed. She might have been waiting inside the cabin of the<br />
ship. He had to hurry to July... Yes, to July, who was waiting for<br />
him, whom he loved. They were inhabitants of another planet, they<br />
couldn't bind their fate to the unlucky beings of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>... They<br />
had to escape, had to try to start.<br />
Suddenly, the plane stopped.<br />
Without a sound, the door opened.<br />
The stairs slid out.<br />
Outside was thick black darkness. Biting, suffocating gases<br />
flooded inside. The breather! Hastily, he took the device and the<br />
oxygen replicator from the bag. Presumably, the orders to do so had<br />
been at the beginning of the video which he hadn't been able to see.<br />
He became unrest and edgy, made one mistake after the other.<br />
He had to put on the breather already inside the aircraft. For sure...<br />
but then he would have had to put off the glasses and wouldn't<br />
have had understood the video...<br />
His fingers cramped, his hands shook, and he had trouble<br />
connecting the breather and the oxygen replicator to each other.<br />
Luckily, it was exactly the same type of equipment that was used in<br />
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