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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had to escape this concrete dungeon... He had to stay with ON,<br />
maybe his friends could help him...<br />
ON worked on his scripts and the map and tried to explain them<br />
to Peter. He also told him about the difficulties they were to expect<br />
and made it clear that they mustn't get into the hype of the<br />
intoxicated and dazed crowd.<br />
The Grand Spring Festival came closer.<br />
All of a sudden, all other books disappeared from the shelves in<br />
the warehouses, only the booklet about the Grand Spring Festival<br />
remained. Peter took one from the shelf and browsed through it.<br />
It read from the celestial miracle, from the mercy and the joy of<br />
love, but pretty slurred and unclear. More and more Trunk Bearers,<br />
sitting on the benches of the squares, browsed this booklet. On the<br />
ceilings of the sleeping halls, more and more often colorful pictures<br />
appeared, together with music with an arousing rhythm. The food<br />
however, just as ON had warned Peter, contained more and more of<br />
the mysterious drugs. Peter analyzed some grams of mushroom<br />
cream, but only could find out the presence of a complex organic<br />
substance of an unknown composition.<br />
One day, they woke because of strange sounds in a rhythm that<br />
became ever faster. It sounded a bit like drums and bells. The<br />
sound became ever stronger and was to be heard all day. The Trunk<br />
Bearers became more and more unrestful. Only a few worked in the<br />
working halls. Peter and ON sat on machines for a short time, the<br />
oxygen tabs they got for their work also contained an intoxicant. ON<br />
had led Peters attention to that in advance. They needed to be<br />
careful. Now, they mustn't eat any food or breathe any of the given<br />
oxygen.<br />
For the huge, festive procession, the crowd also was prepared by<br />
a mysterious higher power. The food now contained certain sexual<br />
hormones and stimulants. Without a break, music played<br />
everywhere, in the sleeping rooms and dining halls, in the storages<br />
and on the squares outside. Then it became brighter, as if the sun<br />
would appear between the clouds. It shone so bright and clear Peter<br />
had to held his hands in protection before his eyes. All around him,<br />
they were just outside on a square, they all suddenly threw<br />
themselves to the ground. "Mercy! Mercy! The spring is here! The<br />
spring is here!", the crowd cried.<br />
"Take care not to be carried along... We better stand at the side!"<br />
ON took his arm.<br />
To Peter, it was as if he awoke from a dream. ONs warnings had<br />
been in vain, he was intoxicated, too, and the waving, raving crowd<br />
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