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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46 – A plane arrives empty<br />
Before the Central Administration Council, the exact plan and<br />
the report were spreaded out. The plan had been elaborated by<br />
Bighead himself.<br />
According to it, the plane starting from the secret airport, type<br />
AKA, was to break through the ion curtain at 11.38 o'clock and<br />
arrive at 18.30 at the Big Lock. From there, the Wise Knight who<br />
had been determined by the Council for this task would arrive at<br />
point BX 3' 4" via moving pathways at 20.00 o'clock, precisely at<br />
midnight in other words. He would execute the necessary technical<br />
examinations and do recordings and get back to the Big Lock<br />
together with July between 8 and 9 o'clock at the next morning. The<br />
flight back was scheduled to start at 11.30, and it was supposed to<br />
land at 18.30 at the secret airport of Oxygenville. Wise Knight was<br />
only allowed to send radio signals in case of an emergency (but<br />
what emergency should even occur to Wise Knight? Technical<br />
failure? A wrong programming?) – all other radio signals were<br />
deleted at the border of the zone A-B by the Huge Mirror.<br />
The Council had decided to not bring July to the biological<br />
institute at once, but instead, Council Member Bighead should<br />
welcome her at the airport of Oxygenville himself, bring her to<br />
comfortable quarters and even allow her to meet Peter. This meeting<br />
could be an excellent opportunity to study the habits of the<br />
inhabitants of the planet named Earth. The equipment would be<br />
taken from her the same way it had happened with Peter<br />
MacGulliver. Only after that, the Council was to begin the<br />
interrogation of the two humans from Earth and to determine their<br />
further fate. The same way, it was to be determined whether the<br />
spaceship was to be thoroughly examinated in the whole or to be<br />
disassembled first and whether this examination would be<br />
performed down there in a City of the Rememberers or if the<br />
spaceship "Humanitas" was brought up to Oxygenville.<br />
At first, the program went excellent. The airport reported the<br />
start of the aircraft just as scheduled and, just at the calculated<br />
time, the passing of the ion curtain. The spaceship, too, had landed<br />
unscathed at the determined point.<br />
The reports laid on Bigheads desk. Only one single surprising,<br />
not foreseen in the program event had happened, a radio hail.<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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