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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and his family to survive any results of the pollution and most likely<br />
would not have any issue with thousands dying or being forced to<br />
miserable living conditions because of his very own interests.<br />
Surely, there are many more others like him. The thought that an<br />
"Earth Trust" similiar to the <strong>Oxygénia</strong> Trust could form is, to me at<br />
least, a nightmare coming true.<br />
Sometimes, I wonder whether it already IS too late to change<br />
something, if Earth already is on an irreversible course to become<br />
<strong>Oxygénia</strong>. Given, the results of climate change may kill or at least<br />
turn the life of our species to the much worse much sooner than<br />
atmospheric pollution or polluted seas (isn't it astonishing and<br />
frightening at the same time how accurately Klára Fehér described<br />
oceans devoured of life but flooded with whole islands of plastic<br />
waste back then when there wasn't even that much plastic waste in<br />
the seas?), but does it really make a lot of a difference which<br />
strikeback of nature is to kill us? And while we're talking about<br />
climate change: well, it doesn't play any role in this novel; I think<br />
that's because of when the novel was written in 1974, it hasn't been<br />
quite that obvious as it is today; Klára Fehér may simply not have<br />
known about it back then. Back in the days, smoking and fuming<br />
car traffic and unfiltered exhausts from industrial facilities were<br />
much more of a problem than they are today, at least in the western<br />
world and the former East Block.<br />
So I made this novel available to everyone in English language<br />
because I really, really want as much people as possible to read it –<br />
and to get to think about it... whether our species still has a chance<br />
– or whether we all already are on the irreversible path of getting<br />
into <strong>Oxygénia</strong>. Not just me, I believe I don't need to bother too much<br />
about myself anymore – you see, I'm 42 years old already, I already<br />
had a life, and I won't live forever. Three, four, maybe with some<br />
luck even five decades – I can't expect much more, I'll possibly<br />
survive this time one way or another, but what about the younger<br />
ones? Humans that are still students today, or those coming after<br />
them, not even born yet? Don't they deserve a chance for a life,<br />
too...?<br />
We all should think about it. Let's hope "<strong>Oxygénia</strong>" is still just a<br />
glimpse of a possible future, only a nightmare that will never turn<br />
into reality – and let's do our share about it. Or YOUR children will<br />
find themselves in a city of the Trunk Bearers unexpectedly.<br />
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