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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cabin of the spaceship "Humanitas" and dreamt all of this<br />
impossible, about the trunk bearing beings, the canyons, about the<br />
monstrous, black-as-coal ocean, about the humanoid beings with<br />
controlled brains. He just dreamed, would wake up again... for sure<br />
he would wake up again.<br />
Shouting snapped him out of his dull dizziness.<br />
He foud himself surrounded by children who stormed at him<br />
with countless questions. Peter had already learned so much of<br />
<strong>Oxygénia</strong>s language from ON that he didn't need the translator<br />
much anymore. The children spoke hastily and shrill, with much<br />
more color and excitement in their voices than the beings in the<br />
concrete cities.<br />
"What are you going to tell us? Where did you come from? Can<br />
you write? What strange clothes do you wear?"<br />
Peter looked from one child to the other. They all were pale,<br />
skinny, dressed in tatters, but their eyes nonetheless shone lively.<br />
He was going to answer, but just then ON came to him.<br />
"The guest is still tired, kids. He has come from far away, and<br />
he's going to tell you many things. But let him rest for now, we have<br />
still so much time."<br />
"And who are you?", the children asked him.<br />
"Little ON is my son", ON replied.<br />
"He can't be your son, you aren't a woman", a little boy called<br />
out, and the others laughed slyly. "So don't claim Little ON would<br />
be your son."<br />
"I will explain that to you", ON said, "but first, we have to rest."<br />
"Sweet dreams", the children said and gave them the way.<br />
ON grabbed Peters hand.<br />
"Please excuse me for leaving you alone... but the excitement<br />
almost took away my mind. But now, I accompany you back to<br />
Sunshine. We're expecting you with food and a lounger."<br />
"I'm not tired, dear ON. I'm plagued by curiousity. I want to<br />
know..."<br />
"We want to rest now because at daybreak, we have to go back<br />
on our way again. ORO sent for us: he's expecting us."<br />
"He sent for us?", Peter asked and looked at ON, surprised and<br />
consternated. "Do you understand this?"<br />
"I don't know how to take this", ON replied.<br />
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