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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"So it is there? In the City of the Rememberers?"<br />
"No. It's not there", ON replied.<br />
"Where is it, then?"<br />
"I don't know."<br />
"But if the verdict was told to you..."<br />
"It wasn't told to me."<br />
"How did you know you had to leave the city?"<br />
"I was thrown down."<br />
"And you didn't fight? Didn't you object?"<br />
"Where?"<br />
"At the Central Control. Who has thrown you down, anyway?"<br />
"Machines. One cannot discuss with machines. They just bring<br />
you the orders and commands. Not even ORO can talk to the<br />
central."<br />
"Who is this ORO?"<br />
"My best friend, a wonderful man, sacrificial, intelligent, great."<br />
"Where is ORO?"<br />
"When I was thrown down, he still was in the City of the<br />
Rememberers. I think... I hope he's still there."<br />
"And how could one get into the City of the Rememberers", Peter<br />
asked, thoughtfully. "If you get back... would the machines arrest<br />
you again? Would they find you? Don't you want to get back?"<br />
ON remained silent, affected.<br />
'Should the checking instance have sent the stranger after him?<br />
What if he just acted the whole time?' Because what Peter had said<br />
aloud now was his deepest secret, all his wishing, everything he<br />
prepared for ever since he was thrown down. Now ON was as<br />
stunned as in the dining hall when Peter had approached him for<br />
the first time.<br />
For some time, both remained silent. ON slowly calmed down.<br />
For which reason the Central should need an officer like Peter? He<br />
was sent to him by good fate, a miracle. On his own, he would try to<br />
save up oxygen in half tabs in vain for a thousand years, and he<br />
still couldn't get to the Rememberers. But if Peter provided him with<br />
enough oxygen, if they tried it together...<br />
"And how can one get to those with a mind?", Peter asked again.<br />
"Right now, there's no way", ON replied. "But maybe it can<br />
happen at the Grand Spring Festival. It's not possible earlier."<br />
"Why not?"<br />
"At the Grand Spring Festival, the way opens up. But we mustn't<br />
enter it because... well, you'll get to know in time the reason why<br />
not. But next to this way is the entrance to the Old Path. Since I<br />
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