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.
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
48 – The escape<br />
Sometimes, July fell asleep, sometimes, she awoke again. She<br />
dreamed she had received a radio signal. Then, she saw Peter<br />
standing inside the cabin. And she awoke and saw the reality. She<br />
was alone, all around her, thick fog and darkness reigned. She<br />
decided to try it again with the radio device. It had been a day<br />
already since she had landed at this eerie planet, and ever since,<br />
she was surrounded by grave silence and darkness.<br />
She pressed the face against the glass of her cabin and watched<br />
the slowly hovering fog.<br />
Suddendly, she saw a white spot, the beam of a weak headlamp.<br />
It seemed to her as if a human would approach who went forward<br />
only laboriously, with a breather and in a strange suit. Now the<br />
man stopped, gave a sign, for sure gave a sign, rotated his small<br />
lamp... The man was Peter! ... Peter, all alone...<br />
There, she forgot every interdict, she pushed buttons, the first<br />
door opened, then the second lock... And July was already down the<br />
stairs... But biting, suffocating gas hit her face and her eyes, she<br />
gasped, tumbled... felt she was being lifted and carried inside the<br />
ship... Peter, he was here, he held her in his strong, dear arms.<br />
Peter... dear Peter, did you come, where are the others? Why did<br />
you come so late? Peter, just say something!!!<br />
But Peter didn't have time for many and long explanations.<br />
"Are the drives ready for launch?", he asked, and that were his<br />
first words. "Start them right now... without any ado... Maybe...<br />
maybe... we can still make it through."<br />
A hiss was to be heard, and the vessel shuddered. The<br />
shapceship "Humanitas" rose up and left a plasma trail behind it.<br />
"I love you, July. Please forgive me for being so late... if you have<br />
to die because of me..."<br />
"Peter, beloved, what are you talking about?"<br />
"Maybe we get through... maybe... maybe... maybe..."<br />
And now, Peters whole attention was directed towards the<br />
instruments. The airspeed of the vessel was still increasing. Who<br />
knew when they had discovered his escape? Did they already know<br />
about it at all? Were they on their trail already? And if so, which<br />
range had the missiles of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>? How far away from the planet<br />
their ship had to get to not be shot down anymore?<br />
The altimeter showed one hundred kilometers... then three<br />
hundred... eight hundred... one thousand...<br />
178
Change language