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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stayed with each other forever, that affection and love, stronger<br />
than physical attraction, let them stay true to each other. And every<br />
now and then it also happened that an ovum was fertilized... So it<br />
happened that a beautiful blonde girl stayed true to me and that a<br />
little boy was born to us, Little ON. But we had to raise Little ON<br />
secretly, we mustn't let him be registered into the birth register..."<br />
"But how was it possible to secretly give birth to a child and raise<br />
it that way? Didn't your neighbors, your acquaintance notice<br />
anything?"<br />
ON looked at him, puzzled.<br />
"I don't quite understand your question."<br />
"The neighbors should have been able to see that your wife was<br />
pregnant. Didn't they ask? Didn't they say something? Wouldn't it<br />
have been possible that someone reported you?"<br />
"Absolutely not. We in the City of the Rememberers also didn't<br />
care about the others. It didn't raise any furor if a neighbor<br />
suddenly didn't live there anymore, if at work another co-worker<br />
appeared... Likewise, it was with my pregnant wife. In our<br />
neighborhood, ORO lived, my best friend. He is a surgeon and<br />
helped with Little ONs birth. The others on the street, in the dining<br />
halls or stores didn't even turn around for her. You've seen it for<br />
yourself, Peter, that down in the concrete city, neither your different<br />
breathing device nor your helmet raised any attention or interest."<br />
"And the computers? And the checks?", Peter asked.<br />
"As I said before, everyone has an NFC chip. Stored on it is the<br />
designation that is assigned to the person after the brain operation.<br />
This NFC chip opens every door. You could observe that something<br />
like that didn't exist in the servant city. There, if you have oxygen,<br />
you can eat, sleep and choose something in the stores according to<br />
your needs. Those beings with the breathers simply don't count.<br />
They only exist – and multiply. In the City of the Rememberers,<br />
however, every machine needs to be activated with the NFC chip. A<br />
pleasant sound distinctively like a little bell, a quit knock or a small<br />
green light – whatever it is on the different machines – indicates<br />
everything is in order, and then the desired food comes up to the<br />
table, or the clothes that are under a glass cover can be taken, or<br />
one gets the desired drink. I don't remember a single case where<br />
someone had a chip which wouldn't have been in order. But then<br />
again, I never paid attention to the others. But I think it can't have<br />
been any different. We had the chip with us; at the beginning of the<br />
working hours, we opened the door to our working station with it,<br />
and a valid NFC chip was also the precondition to be able to leave at<br />
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