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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21 – ORO 91<br />
ORO had recognized ON immediately.<br />
He had alreday recognized him when he had heard his voice and<br />
when he had stopped up there on the stairs. When he had seen ON<br />
down in the hallway, the unknown man next to him, his first<br />
thought had been to hurry to his friend and hug him. But the next<br />
moment, he scared back from it: 'This is impossible... this can only<br />
be a provocation... it is impossible... ON cannot have returned... no<br />
one can return from there... This man can't be ON, he's just<br />
wearing ONs mask and imitating his voice... And the other one, next<br />
to him? ... No, I mustn't betray myself.'<br />
He hesitated for a moment when he saw the affection and the<br />
true despair in in ONs face. But then he remained still showing a<br />
dark look and waited until the sobbing, defeated ON had left the<br />
house together with the stranger.<br />
He remained excited and in uproar the whole day. His calmness<br />
and discipline had completely left him. Luckily, it was just his day<br />
off. He felt that his nerves would fail him at work right now. He put<br />
the drink Deep Sleep on the table next to him, ready to drink from it<br />
at any moment. He felt like he had never been in such a great<br />
danger before.<br />
ORO was about the same age as ON. About his origin and his<br />
childhood, he knew almost nothing. He had only very vague,<br />
unclear memories of a concrete city, of a small face mask, and<br />
sometimes he remembered an infinitely long shelf filled with grey<br />
building blocks from which one time, he wanted to take very many,<br />
but let them drop, followed by the shrill sound of a bell, a shaft<br />
opened up and swallowed the dropped blocks. His next memory was<br />
already the Grand Spring Festival. He could remember of a great<br />
number of adults and children, of dizzy-making motley colors,<br />
intoxicating drinks and a happy romping around. He still knew how<br />
he had been washed away by the crowd like by a huge, living<br />
torrent. He would have had no chance of backing off, and he didn't<br />
want to anyway. He enjoyed his nudity. He was still a little boy, but<br />
sometimes someone hugged and caressed him, and along the way,<br />
he found food and drinks everywhere. The more he ate and drank,<br />
the more desire he felt for it, the more elated he felt, the happier he<br />
moved forward. His breath was light, the air had an unforgettable<br />
good scent, and suddenly he found himself in a narrower corridor,<br />
on a moving sidewalk, and a voice repeated without interruption:<br />
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