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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The conveyor belt stopped with a hard jolt, something slammed,<br />
then the freight started to move again and now went into the<br />
opposite direction.<br />
"Jump on!"<br />
They squatted on the packages rolling along like the wind. ON<br />
watched the conveyor belts that roared above, beneath and next to<br />
them and the signs that were attached at the walls and on pillars.<br />
He took off the glasses and gave them to Peter.<br />
"Have a look at this!"<br />
Now, Peter could realise everything.<br />
The direction of the transports changed, re-organized, as if the<br />
switches in a railway junction had been turned. Lights flashed,<br />
signal lamps lit and went dark again; maybe due to their<br />
intervention, the computers stepped into action, re-arranged and<br />
changed... Maybe everything was monitored and reported by control<br />
systems... Maybe they ended up at another concrete wall in a few<br />
moments, at a locked gate through which the uncountable clothes<br />
could not get through, but instead piled up to a mountain and<br />
would fall on them... Peter gave the deciphering glasses to ON.<br />
"I believe I already know what we have to do", ON said.<br />
Unexpectedly, they fell off the transporting belt.<br />
They fell into a giant hole. Beneath them, maybe thousands and<br />
thousands of packages with working clothes might have been, and<br />
the belt kept bringing more.<br />
Luckily, the walls of this room were shaped like a cone, and they<br />
could easily climb up to its edge. ON looked back and realised that<br />
there was a switch board just above the gap through which the<br />
packages with the overalls fell down. Obviously, it could be used<br />
just like all the others before.<br />
Peter turned the button in the thick fog. In the brownish black<br />
billowing, he finally spotted a faintly glowing silvery spot. It was the<br />
spaceship "Humanitas"! They were only a few hundred meters away.<br />
"The merciful fate may be with you so your escape will be<br />
successful", ON said, "and we are grateful for all that you've done<br />
for <strong>Oxygénia</strong>."<br />
"The merciful fate may also be with you so you will become free<br />
at last, and I am grateful for everything that you've done for me",<br />
Peter replied.<br />
The men shook hands, and ON and his mates slid back into the<br />
gap. He switched again, and conveyor belt loaded with clothing<br />
packages now moved in its original direction again.<br />
"If you want, you can leave at the canyon", ON said.<br />
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