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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same everywhere grey dining halls. Here were dining halls, too, but<br />
with huge glass panels with people sitting behind them at colorful<br />
tables without breathers. There even existed grocery stores. On the<br />
shelves, however, only sweets and many kind of drinks were to be<br />
found.<br />
"We're there!", ON exclaimed, beaming.<br />
He had stopped in front of a friendly looking green house. On his<br />
ringing the bell, a door opened. They entered, and the door closed<br />
behind them, then, another door opened. Through such locks they<br />
got into the house. Obviously, these locks were necessary so the<br />
oxygen of the inside could not escape.<br />
After the fifth or sixth lock, they found themselves in a spacious<br />
hallway. From here, stairs led up to the rooms on the upper floor.<br />
ON stopped in the middle of the hallway.<br />
"ORO, are you at home?"<br />
"Yes, just a moment", the answer came from above.<br />
On the upper end of the stairs, a tall man with an intelligent face<br />
appeared. As far as Peter could tell about the inhabitants of this<br />
planet, it was a strong young man about the same age as ON.<br />
The man stopped at the stairs and looked at the comers,<br />
stunned.<br />
"ORO, dear friend! Don't you recognize me? I am ON, ON 711<br />
314... your best friend..."<br />
"I don't know you, sir", ORO replied and stared at ON with an<br />
empty gaze. "I have never seen you."<br />
"I'm pleading you... don't get at my mind... can you tell me what<br />
happened to my wife and where I can find Little ON?"<br />
"I understand your words, yet I don't comprehend what you<br />
want. I have never seen you."<br />
"This is worse... this is worse than death", ON cried and began to<br />
sob.<br />
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