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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leader of our security, took too long to make up your mind to let the<br />
missiles have reprogrammed..."<br />
"But is it this disastrous for <strong>Oxygénia</strong> if a couple in their shabby<br />
little spaceship returns to their own planet? Is it this disastrous if<br />
someone somewhere far away from here, in another solar system,<br />
knows about us? <strong>Oxygénia</strong> isn't threatened by anyone after all..."<br />
"And yet, we are threatened. If it is possible to escape from here,<br />
we are threatened. If information can leak from here, we are<br />
threatened. For farewell, you are allowed to kiss my hand, son."<br />
"You don't want to throw me, too, to the Trunk Bearers? Me? The<br />
heir apparent of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>?"<br />
"According to our laws, the ruler of <strong>Oxygénia</strong> always has two<br />
sons. The older one gets onto the throne. If he is worthy for it. I, too,<br />
was the second son of my father."<br />
The trap in the floor of the throne hall opened. Prince warrior fell<br />
to the depth, robbed of his consciousness.<br />
Two hours later, a robot brought him together with Bighead on<br />
the Secret Flight Route into a servant city. They wore grey working<br />
clothes and a mask with a breathing hose. And they didn't<br />
remember Oxygenville...<br />
At the throne hall, they met for a new council. Led by the king<br />
and prince Valiant, the new successor, a new security council was<br />
elected. Its members were ordered to examine the cicrumstances of<br />
the vanishing of Peter MacGulliver and check the technical state of<br />
the Secret Flight Route at once. An immediate encephalograph of all<br />
Rememberers was ordered, as well as the check of all school books.<br />
As a further command, it was ordered that the defense missiles of<br />
<strong>Oxygénia</strong> which until now only reacted to objects approaching from<br />
outer space had to get an add-on with a shielding system to the<br />
inside as well. If it had happened once that a spaceship could get<br />
away from the sovereign territory of <strong>Oxygénia</strong>, it could very well<br />
happen for a second time...<br />
Satisfied, the king listened to the straightforward, energetic<br />
proposals of prince Valiant. He demanded the development of a new<br />
code system for opening and closing the locks, new...<br />
The king looked up. At the giant crystal screens of the windows,<br />
he realised strange light effects. He thought he had seen brownish<br />
red shadows pass by.<br />
Prince Valiant bowed before him deferentially.<br />
"Great father... I was talking about a new code system..."<br />
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