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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10 – The secret of the strange planet<br />
Peter awoke to find ON awake already.<br />
He now made a completely different impression than before they<br />
had gone to sleep, he was more lively, faster in his movements,<br />
almost bright. He went to the dining hall with Peter. According to<br />
his recommendation, Peter ordered just a milk-like liquid, nothing<br />
else. "Else, you feel dazed", ON explained. "In all other food are<br />
drugs."<br />
"What kind of drugs?", Peter asked.<br />
"You're going to understand in time." When they were finished<br />
with the meal, ON said: "Now I am completely available for you."<br />
"I need help to get to know what happened to the spaceship and<br />
my wife."<br />
"This is not possible", ON replied.<br />
Peter thought that maybe the translator wasn't working properly,<br />
so he tried to express the matter more clearly. "I want to talk to<br />
someone who's in charge of the inner city transport... the director of<br />
the rescue services, or the security service."<br />
"Something like that does not exist."<br />
"Where are the local authorities?"<br />
"There are no authorities."<br />
"Let me explain it this way: I want to get somewhere where I can<br />
establish a radio communication with a station on Earth or the<br />
spaceship."<br />
"I don't know what radio communication is."<br />
"Sending a message with electromagnetic waves."<br />
"This way, I understand it. You cannot send radio signals from<br />
<strong>Oxygénia</strong>."<br />
"Radio waves are everywhere, in the whole Milky Way system. If<br />
anything, they are shielded here by something. Do you<br />
understand?"<br />
"Exactly", ON replied. "But you can't send radio signals from<br />
outside the city, either. At least not that I'm aware of. It's not just<br />
that we can't send radio signals, I haven't heard of it ever before."<br />
"How can I leave this city?"<br />
"The cities around this one are exactly like this one."<br />
"And what's in between?"<br />
"The Black Space."<br />
"Would you bring me there?"<br />
"Why do you want to get in the Black Space?"<br />
"Maybe I can use radio from there."<br />
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