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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44 – The landing<br />
The spaceship touched down at the planet.<br />
July felt an extreme fatigue in her limbs, and she was a bit dizzy<br />
as well.<br />
The last order had been a repeat of the text that was already<br />
known to total boredom: "The radio connection will get lost, stay<br />
inside your cabin until further instructions. Opening the airlocks is<br />
forbidden. Leaving the spaceship is life threatening!"<br />
During the landing, she saw purple light. All of a sudden, this<br />
light was gone, and she found herself in the middle of a brownish<br />
grey ocean of fog. Through the windows of ship, nothing could be<br />
recognized. She tried to figure out the silhouettes of mountains,<br />
searched for a city, for an area inhabited by humans or a sea. But<br />
there was nothing, only the fog.<br />
In the radio communication of the last days, she repeatedly had<br />
heard Peters voice. His words had been soothing: they would soon<br />
be together again; most likely, he wouldn't be able to come to<br />
welcome her, but they would meet in the capital. July was happy to<br />
be able to hear Peters voice, but after each talk, she felt an<br />
inexplicable unrest. The voice was Peter's, but then again, it was<br />
not. Something was missed in his words, something she just<br />
couldn't explain. Maybe the warmth, the personal touch. Sometimes<br />
she felt as if she wasn't talking to her Peter but to a robot-Peter.<br />
'Ridiculous', she told herself, 'I'm just unrest, nervous, I'm seeing<br />
ghosts. Or was this an effect of his concussion? Had Peter changed?<br />
Had they done something to him? Or... No, I don't get it...' But now,<br />
this uneasy oppression was over, they would meet, would get back<br />
into the spaceship and fly back to their dear Earth, to their home...<br />
Since her landing, one and an half hour had passed. Outside<br />
was fog, fog and more fog. She felt an extreme fatigue. Again and<br />
again, her head dropped down. Don't fall asleep! If so, she wouldn't<br />
realise the arrivals. Would they come with a helicopter? Or by a<br />
car? Would they send light signals?<br />
She awoke, and the fog and the darkness outside were even<br />
thicker than before. Since the touchdown of the spaceship, more<br />
than ten hours had passed. What had happened? Had the welcome<br />
delegation got lost? Hadn't she been landed at the spot where she<br />
was expected? Had there been a mistake? She switched on the radio<br />
device.<br />
This is "Humanitas"! This is "Humanitas"! I'm waiting for ten<br />
hours... I'm waiting for ten hours...<br />
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