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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17 – In the best friend's house<br />
The way appeared to be endless, and it seemed to Peter as if they<br />
were walking since the forming of the planet. Now they walked on<br />
softer, a bit swampy ground, and their feet became heavier. Then,<br />
rocks followed again. In front of them, the narrow beam of the<br />
wristbeam showed the way; beneath, above and behind them,<br />
impermeatable darkness reigned.<br />
Now Peter had the impression, too, that the only thing that could<br />
help them was getting to ORO, the good friend. He didn't allow any<br />
illusions to himself anymore. It surely was more advisable to hide<br />
from the dark, mysterious power in the Central Control if that was<br />
possible. Because who knew if his mishap really was a coincidence?<br />
If he wasn't brought here on purpose? If he wasn't watched, his<br />
every step being closely followed from the first moment on? If his<br />
radio transmissions which had remained unanswered had been<br />
registered somewhere?<br />
And July? Where was she? The thought what might have<br />
happened to July almost drove him insane. Maybe the<br />
Rememberers knew something about her, maybe he got to knew<br />
more in their city...<br />
And Peter walked along the impassable path. Sometimes he felt<br />
as if they were followed. Then he lit around with his atomic<br />
wristbeam. But nowhere there was anyone to be seen, only the<br />
heavy, dense darkness.<br />
They moved on, unceasingly moved on. They barely talked to<br />
each other anymore. ON, too, was tortured by uneasy thoughts. If<br />
his map was correct? If they were on the right path? Would they<br />
reach their destination? When? And what would expect them there?<br />
Then there were times when confidence and joy overcame them.<br />
ON hoped to see his wife and Little ON again, and Peter hoped that<br />
maybe July would be in the City of the Rememberers, too. Maybe<br />
ORO knew something about her. Anf if not? What then? Where<br />
should he go, what should he attempt?<br />
The replicator produced the substances they needed to survive.<br />
Again, Peter refilled ONs oxygen bin – who knew for how many<br />
times. They swallowed pills. And for the first time, the thought<br />
occured to Peter whether his devices would continue to work<br />
indefinetly. They were merely constructed for a short space trip,<br />
more of a toy than serious equipment...<br />
Suddenly, ON who walked in the first place, hesitated.<br />
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