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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Shocked, Peter stared at the school book. No doubt, the cities all<br />
were built according to the same scheme. In their centre were<br />
identical places, around them cube-shaped buildings; windowless,<br />
monotonous grey blocks. And there was no single tower, no stairs,<br />
no terraces, nothing... 'Where I am stranded?', he thought,<br />
shuddering. 'The inhabitants of <strong>Oxygénia</strong> live in cities... all cities<br />
are the same... they all have the same temperature and are equally<br />
supplied with light and food...' He felt as if he was stranded in a<br />
giant mouse trap... or more like he would be in an old-fashioned<br />
stockbreeding factory like they had been on Earth centuries ago,<br />
back in the times when the technology to gain full-worthy proteina<br />
out of plants with photosynthesis hadn't been developed yet. Back<br />
when in so-called mews animals where held and fattened, those<br />
giant barns might have been something similiar... The view of the<br />
depressingly slowly creeping beings with trunk-like breathing<br />
hoses was unbearable...<br />
He put the school book in his side bag and looked around,<br />
unsure. There he spotted the young man again, wearing his bag-like<br />
baggage under his arm again now. Just now, he entered one of the<br />
oxygen distributing working places.<br />
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