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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19 – Little ONs gift<br />
It became day and night again. Untiringly, ON and Peter went<br />
along the cliffside. Peter got the idea to establish a communication<br />
with the canyon inhabitants by light signals.<br />
He started to draw circles with his atomic wristbeam.<br />
He repeated those signals time and again, but got no reply. Dull,<br />
dark silence was everywhere.<br />
"But they have to be nearby here", ON said quietly.<br />
"The don't respond", Peter replied. "They are presumably afraid of<br />
us."<br />
"Afraid of me?", ON exclaimed. "Why should they be afraid of<br />
me?"<br />
"The heck", Peter said, "they can't know it's you! Maybe they see<br />
the light, but not us. Wait a moment..."<br />
They stopped and grabbed a hold on the rocks. Peter turned<br />
towards ON and lit him. The beam of the atomic lamp highlighted<br />
ONs figure, his curly brown hair, his slim body. For some minutes,<br />
they stood like this, then Peter switched off the lamp and turned it<br />
on again after a while. Like this, he showed ON to the canyon<br />
inhabitants.<br />
After some minutes, a women was heard yelling out in the night:<br />
"ON... OOON... wait for me! Stay there, wait for me..."<br />
Then, a tiny, swaying light lit up in the distance. It came closer<br />
and closer. And suddenly, a beautiful, slim young woman stood in<br />
front of them. Peter didn't know exactly much about <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s<br />
fashion, but it was obvious that her clothes were made by herself,<br />
sewn together with an unpractised hand, and yet she emanated<br />
charme and gracefulness. She approached ON, hugged and kissed<br />
him. To Peter, she paid almost no attention.<br />
"And Little ON?", ON asked after the hug.<br />
"He's already this tall", she indicated it with her hand, "and<br />
prays every day for you to come home so he can give you his gift...<br />
but this, I am giving you..."<br />
Sunshine, the young woman, handed ON a piece of<br />
phosphorescent, rotting piece of wood.<br />
"It's glowing", she said.<br />
Excited, Peter asked to be allowed to get a closer look on the<br />
wood. With his instruments, he determined it was indeed an<br />
organic, real wooden bark and that its glowing was a result of its<br />
decaying process.<br />
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