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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20 – In subterranean wonderland<br />
Peter couldn't determine how big this subterranean world might<br />
be or how many people lived in it. During the first hours, ON was so<br />
overwhelmed by the joy of reunion that he had practically forgotten<br />
him. Peter didn't want to get far away from his friend, but he tried<br />
to take a look around the cave labyrinth as best as he could<br />
nonetheless, at least in the part where Sunshine and Little ON<br />
lived.<br />
The cave system had a broad main corridor which was smaller<br />
here or widened to giant arched halls there. The walls of the cave<br />
were partially moist. To his surprise, Peter found that from one gap<br />
in a wall of a grotto a small waterfall bubbled out and vanished in<br />
another one. Smaller and larger spaces opened up into all<br />
directions, one had to descend to some or to climb up to others. In<br />
some caves were loungers on sand or gravel, covered with plastic,<br />
on others, however, he saw fresh grass. It was the first time for him<br />
to encounter plant life since he had set foot on this strange planet.<br />
In the caves, mostly women and children lived. After the silence in<br />
the concrete cities and the slow movements of their inhabitants it<br />
came to his attention how lively they all were in this place. There<br />
was much talk and even singing.<br />
Peter strolled along the main corridor and all of a sudden found<br />
himself in some sort of thick forest. There were no trees, but bushes<br />
and brushwood and real creeper plants, a lush thicket, not without<br />
traces of a system. All of this was incomprehensible and surprising<br />
to him, especially the fact that from above, light fell in. This<br />
glistening light was inxplicable to him, and he didn't understand<br />
the whole thing at first. On Earth, he had seen such only in a few<br />
spots, nearby Neapel on the Capri island and on the island of Malta<br />
not far from La Valetta, in the so-called Blue Grottos, in the depth<br />
of dark caves with shining turquoise colored water. Where did this<br />
light come from? And where did the vegetation come from? Where<br />
did these humanoid beings come from? How did they live, from<br />
what did they live, who supported them, and which fate waited for<br />
them?<br />
Nowhere in the cave, a fire burned. This wouldn't have been a<br />
good idea anyway since the fire would have used up a lot of oxygen.<br />
Quite dizzy, Peter stood between the plants. He felt as if he had<br />
somehow stumbled into a bizarre greenhouse. He suddenly felt as if<br />
he'd be moving in this cave in a dream. Yes, maybe he was just<br />
dreaming all of this, maybe he was at home on Earth or slept in the<br />
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