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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know about <strong>Oxygénia</strong>... I have no knowledge about my father or my<br />
mother, neither do I know at which Spring Festival I got into the<br />
concrete city. There is, however, a huge birth register in which the<br />
registration machines enter the data of all children ever born, and<br />
this data and a NFC chip with these data accompany everyone<br />
throughout the whole life. Out of these data, we are only told our<br />
designation which we have to learn, it's our personal registry<br />
number. Mine is, as you know, ON 711 314. For some time I<br />
believed I could come to some conclusions with it, maybe about the<br />
year I was born, or where it has been. But we also don't know about<br />
the system of the designations and numbers. As I told you before,<br />
time is something uncertain, incomprehensible in <strong>Oxygénia</strong>.<br />
Therefore I don't know how much time has passed, how many<br />
Spring Festivals, because as you've seen, children take part in this<br />
intoxicating festivity already at five, six or seven years of age. Well of<br />
course they don't get into sexual ecstasy yet, but they play, scuffle,<br />
their feelings are awoken, they feel the desire for intoxicating<br />
drinks, and they do get high on the music, the unlimited oxygen<br />
and the dancing. Then they get back between the concrete blocks<br />
where they learn that you don't have to struggle for food or shoes,<br />
everyone gets enough of it, and they learn that one mustn't move<br />
much, mustn't have any longings, one has to learn that God created<br />
<strong>Oxygénia</strong>, one has to watch the TV broadcasts and skillfully play<br />
with the puzzle, that way, time passes quite agreeable."<br />
ON kept quiet gloomily for a moment, then he continued:<br />
"Maybe it would have been better to spend my life this way. It's<br />
the fate of millions. They work for their daily oxygen, eventually get<br />
tired of it, don't get up from bed anymore, take more and more<br />
hibernation tabs until finally, they fall asleep, congeal and don't<br />
wake up again."<br />
"And what happens to them?"<br />
"A conveyor belt transports them away..."<br />
'If I ever get home from here... to Earth... to my beautiful home',<br />
Peter thought and felt as if all power left him.<br />
"I don't know how old I might have been, but not mature enough<br />
for love yet, an adolescent boy, when the computers selected me.<br />
Drunk, I jumped through the cave flooded by bright light at the<br />
Grand Spring Festival. From a broad path, I got into a narrower<br />
corridor unexpectedly. Just like in the cave, numerous boys and<br />
girls wandered with me. A voice repeated without interruption: 'You<br />
are the lucky chosen ones... The mercy has befallen on you... You<br />
get up into the light... God loves you.'<br />
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