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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"I don't know for sure. But we have to go to sleep and awake<br />
several times until then."<br />
"I hope I'm long gone until then."<br />
"This, you're hoping in vain", ON replied portentously. "You<br />
cannot escape from <strong>Oxygénia</strong>."<br />
"But that is impossible!", Peter yelled desperately.<br />
"I want to hope that I am wrong", ON mumbled to himself.<br />
So here the artifical light ended. It was as dark as in space, as in<br />
the areas between the stars. But this dark was scary, seemed like<br />
moonscape drained of all life. There are such areas on the islands<br />
shaken by volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean, where ash grey craters<br />
are yawning, where half-burnt trees and burnt remains of destroyed<br />
villages arise. Sometimes they deemed to be on old roads where<br />
maybe once animals, humans and vehicles had passed. When they<br />
had walked between the concrete cubes of the city, he had felt as if<br />
there couldn't be anything more depressing than that. But this no<br />
mans land between the cities, this sad landscape that reminded of<br />
doomsday, was worse than anything before.<br />
He hadn't even a guess of time anymore. At the edge of the city,<br />
ON had refilled the oxygen bins, but they again had to struggle for<br />
breathe. It seemed they were on their way for a long time and had<br />
covered a great distance. Now the wristbeam shone on a strange,<br />
billowing dark mass. ON indicated they had to stop.<br />
"What is this?", Peter asked.<br />
"The ocean", ON replied. They had reached the coast. Peter<br />
moved the wristbeam. The powerful light beam of the atomic lux<br />
lamp seemed like a thin thread, it disappeared, was swallowed by<br />
this impermeatable, billowing black. It reminded Peter of the ocean<br />
indeed, but more of the bubbling lava pond of a volcano. This sea<br />
had no color and didn't show the foamy light rhythm of the waves,<br />
it didn't hit against rocks, didn't sparkle in light and had no spray.<br />
This sea moved like a sluggish, scary protozoan, like a fear<br />
spreading puddle in a trough-like bed which devoured everything.<br />
"Don't get any closer!", ON called. "It's dangerous."<br />
"What kind of sea is this?"<br />
"Once, ships were riding on this sea", ON explained, his voice<br />
now shaking with infinite pain. "This sea which was traveled by<br />
ships, cheerful sailors and happy fishermen had blue water, and<br />
the sky beamed above it. I don't know when that was. Ever since,<br />
there's no time in <strong>Oxygénia</strong>. In the sea's water, there lived fish,<br />
crabs, seashells, jellyfish and starfish. Scurrying little fish and<br />
fearsome predators. The sea was full of life, and along the seaside,<br />
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