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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05 – Growing concerns<br />
Peter was awakened by quiet, pleasant music. He opened his<br />
eyes and looked up at the ceiling. It was gray and served as a<br />
projection screen for a movie.<br />
He tried to wipe the fogged up glasses of his breather to be able<br />
to watch it. In the beds all around him, humanoid beings were<br />
laying. They all were awake, laid on the back and looked up at the<br />
ceiling. Of course, they wore no breathers, only the trunk on their<br />
nose.<br />
He switched on the translator and listened.<br />
On the grey screen, a young man and a young woman appeared<br />
– as far as Peter could guess their age and sexes. In jogging gear<br />
and with the oxygen trunks, they sat on a bench and talked about<br />
love. Very slowly and boring. They said something about the Grand<br />
Spring Festival and that they were going to hug each other. "You are<br />
beautiful", the man said. "You are good", the girl said. Then, the<br />
picture changed. Now the screen played medical advice. People<br />
should chew slower as this would consume less oxygen. Another<br />
change. Now a cildren's choir was singing about the Grand Spring<br />
Festival. "We are going to be happy and healthy, will pray to<br />
experience the Grand Spring Festival". Then, just for a moment, the<br />
picture became colorful: it was as if one would see a landscape on<br />
Earth with blue sky and green grass. A strange excitement<br />
overcame the people in the hall. Many sat up and started to sing.<br />
This all was only for a minute. The picture at the ceiling became<br />
grey again. The hall went silent. Behind the couple, nothing but a<br />
concrete cube building was to be seen, as well as behind the doctor<br />
and the children's choir.<br />
Then, the picture faded out completely. The people in the<br />
neighboring beds got up and went to the bathroom. Peter remained<br />
in bed, deep in thoughts. Again, pleasant music was to be heard. He<br />
recognized wind and string instruments. The melody resembled the<br />
one heard before.<br />
Again, he tried to think.<br />
Undoubtedly, he was the victim of a space ship accident. Maybe<br />
July had survived, too, and was somewhere nearby. Maybe she had<br />
been arrested. He had to search for her without any further delay.<br />
And he mustn't eat from the local food. Maybe they contained an<br />
unknown sedative or other substances that were harmful to him.<br />
Better to nourish from his stock of grocery tabs.<br />
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