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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that had brought him here from the city. But this moving sidewalk<br />
moved in one direction – away from the city. He tried to get forward<br />
with small jumps against the moving direction, but it didn't work,<br />
he didn't make any way. The speed of the moving path was too big<br />
to overcome it.<br />
He stood there clueless when he noticed that at the edge of the<br />
moving path, there was a narrow, not moving strip. He pressed<br />
himself against the rock wall and creeped forward with strained<br />
effort. The pathway which was moving against him made him dizzy.<br />
His whole body was covered in sweat. After he had made about five<br />
hundred meters, this stationary strip ended. In the headlight beam,<br />
he realised a rusty colored switch board at the wall.<br />
In case of an emergency, code number six!<br />
All of a sudden, this order came to his mind. Back in the plane,<br />
he had barely paid attention to it. What could that mean: in case of<br />
an emergency? If something unexpectedly didn't open... if<br />
something unexpectedly didn't close... If something moved in the<br />
wrong direction! He quickly took off the discs, searched for the<br />
setting number six and put them back on. Now, he saw every ten to<br />
fifteen meters a panel of switches, all along the rock wall. On each<br />
button, a small green arrow vibrated and indicated in the direction<br />
of the moving pathway. He grabbed for the next switch and turned<br />
it around. A howling was to be heard as if a hurricane would rave<br />
through the tunnel. All green arrows now indicated in the opposite<br />
direction – and the moving path, likewise, changed its direction. It<br />
rolled now towards the city, at a giant speed. Peter threw himself on<br />
the moving belt and was carried away so fast that he almost seemed<br />
to fly.<br />
He didn't know since when he was transported, he had lost the<br />
feeling for time, his legs became clay, he panted and gasped for air.<br />
And then, the moving pathway terminated.<br />
Again, he found himself in front of a lock, a giant grey concrete<br />
wall. Now he already used the glasses in his breather calmly and<br />
decidedly. He turned the discs until the switch board became visible<br />
to him. Then he turned two switches, and the concrete walls<br />
opened.<br />
He stood at the Central Square of the City number Five of the<br />
Rememberers.<br />
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