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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45 – In the canyon once again<br />
How much time might have passed?<br />
Had his escape already been discovered?<br />
What was with July?<br />
Questions and more questions, and no answer to any of them.<br />
He hurried along the streets seamed by artifical trees and<br />
artifical grass through the City of the Rememberers, in the pale<br />
light, he ran towards the canyon.<br />
He had barely power left, it was his pure will which propelled his<br />
feet. His legs hurt, his lungs gasped. And then, suddenly, he was in<br />
the dim cave, surrounded by men, women and children. They all<br />
were pale and thin – oh, so very different from the inhabitants of<br />
Oxygenville! A little boy clinged to his arm.<br />
"I knew that you would return, man from Earth! We've waited for<br />
you. I've even dreamed of you. I knew nothing bad would happen to<br />
you, because you are powerful."<br />
ON and Sunshine stood next to him. They knew nothing about<br />
ORO.<br />
Peter spread all on a stone table, the maps, the SD card, he gave<br />
them the instruments and the deciphering glasses, and he<br />
explained hastily. The ion curtain, the system that divided the<br />
oxygen from the suffocating gases, the whole tunnel system. He<br />
explained, explained, and during that, the time went by.<br />
And suddenly, the pale beings got the idea. They understood the<br />
secret why eight billion beings had to get along with rationed oxygen<br />
makeshift, why millions had to live with shielded brains... And<br />
before them was the map, with the secret points, the locks that had<br />
to be opened, the secrets of the billowing fogs that had to be wept<br />
away.<br />
"Peter, we elect you to be our leader! We work out a plan how to<br />
open the locks quickly... We already have a lot of followers, we are<br />
determined..."<br />
"I wish you good luck with that, but I have to go!"<br />
"You're going? But where? We will assault the locks... will be<br />
victorious..."<br />
"I have to go. The spaceship has been landed. My wife is aboard<br />
the ship."<br />
"And you're only saying so now? Where has she been landed?"<br />
Peter indicated at the point BX 3' 4" on the map.<br />
"Here, about six hours ago."<br />
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