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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Bighead felt as if he would be dipped into a sedative bath. The<br />
air around him was vertiginous, foggy, darkness reigned;<br />
impermeatable darkness, and he felt as if he fell down into a<br />
bottomlessly deep shaft.<br />
They remained the three in the throne hall.<br />
The two brothers glared at each other.<br />
"Traitor!", Valiant hissed. "You have let know the Earthling that<br />
the ship would land. You showed him the way to escape. You let<br />
him get away!"<br />
"'Tis not true!", prince Warrior flared up. "Father, you won't<br />
believe him that?"<br />
"It don't believe him that", Benefactor XIII said, "because I know<br />
for sure that you didn't give away our secrets. You have done<br />
something much more serious and are therefore unworthy of the<br />
throne. You have let it become obvious that you are a weakling."<br />
"But father!"<br />
"You didn't tell him that the spaceship was about to land, but he<br />
got know it anyway. From where did he get that knowledge? He has<br />
listened to our radio communication. Where did he get the receiver<br />
from? Your order was to take all of his equipment from him. And<br />
how could he understand our language?"<br />
"I took everything from him."<br />
"Did you also have his hair shaven off? Did you look inside his<br />
body? Maybe he has swallowed the receiver? Did you check his<br />
brain, too? Did you do everything?"<br />
"Father... the hospitality... the chivalry..."<br />
"Weaklings don't belong on <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s throne."<br />
"A single ring was left to him... He was clinging to it. He had<br />
gotten it from his bride. Do you believe, father, that there is a power<br />
in the world I would let the cloth to that princess Goldhair, my<br />
beloved fiancée, has stitched for me?"<br />
"Which fiancée?", the king asked. "You have no fiancée."<br />
"Father... we were engaged to each other at her birth..."<br />
"She was engaged with the successor of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>, with the<br />
future Benefactor XIV. But from this moment on, that will be prince<br />
Valiant."<br />
"Father, have mercy!"<br />
"As father, I would have mercy, but I'm not allowed to as the<br />
ruler of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>. The spaceship from Earth has departed, has<br />
outrun the range of our missiles. Because or defense only controls<br />
the moving objects approaching us from outside and you, the chief<br />
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