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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Where is <strong>Oxygénia</strong>? (Author's notes.)<br />
This book is a novel. It is entirely the result of the author's<br />
imagination. <strong>Oxygénia</strong> is not really situated somewhere in the Milky<br />
Way System, but rather nearby Liliput and Brobdingnag, maybe<br />
also in the neighborhood of Tralfamador or Utopia... This book is a<br />
novel. It is neither meant to be a popular-scientific article nor a<br />
scientific description. To write something like that I wouldn't have<br />
dared even if I understood a little bit more about astronomy,<br />
chemistry, physics or biology. I'm asking my dear readers not to<br />
want to research how the ion curtain and the air lock system may<br />
have worked, how the breathing device of the Trunk Bearers had<br />
been designed, how its bearers could talk while their mouth was<br />
covered, and I also ask not to question about the nature of the radio<br />
wave deleting and passing-through system of the mysterious<br />
Central Control of Oxygenville and how the Hundred Lineages had<br />
managed to establish their paradisiacal reign. Just believe me that<br />
everything just happened like that.<br />
This book is a novel, an invented story, the game of imagination.<br />
And if you sometimes got the impression that during its creation,<br />
some very earthly anxieties have played a role – then you are totally<br />
right. I wrote about the scary, purple shimmering planet because I<br />
fear about the cleanliness of the seas, about the oxygen donating<br />
plankton, because I'm concerned about the inhabitants of the cities<br />
struggling for breath in the smoke, about the streets contaminated<br />
by the smog of the gasoline and the carbon dioxyde. I'm anxious<br />
about the trees, the fresh grass and the flowers.<br />
If I would be an architect, I would break my head about how to<br />
construct smog free cities. If I would be a geologist, I would take up<br />
the fight against the deforesting of the mountains, against the<br />
devastation of whole landscapes. I'm an author, can only admonish.<br />
Humans, sisters and brothers! Earth is so beautiful, the sunshine<br />
so marvellous, the life so wonderful, let's protect it as long as it's<br />
still possible, as long as it isn't too late...<br />
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