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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cries subdued. ORO felt his heart beating loudly. His face was<br />
flooded with sweat, and his teeth rattled because of overpowering<br />
infuriation. Half unconscious, he grabbed for the drug. This was his<br />
luck. A few minutes later, he was summoned to a control check.<br />
ORO laid on the examinaton bed calmly, he was in a state of a dull<br />
daze when the electrodes of the encephalograph were attached to<br />
him. The readings were excellent, only the brain areas determined<br />
to solve his tasks were agitated. ORO had passed the first big test:<br />
he had proven himself as reliable.<br />
He was assigned more and more tasks like that, by which he<br />
learned more details about the strange life on <strong>Oxygénia</strong>.<br />
And the fear inside him kept growing.<br />
He was in fear when he discussed nights away with ON. He was<br />
afraid when ON and Sunshine confessed to him they wanted to stay<br />
together, and even more when he learned that Sunshine was to<br />
have a child and he needed to assist with the birth in secret. He<br />
was frightened because his brain was already full of forbidden<br />
sciences, of doubts and questions, and he shuddered because of<br />
fear that at the next check, the sedation by the drug Deep Sleep<br />
wouldn't be enough anymore and the next encephalography would<br />
mercilessly uncover him. Then there would be no running from his<br />
fate, he would have to endure another brain operation, or even<br />
worse, be convicted to memory erasure and thrown into eternal<br />
illiteracy, to the Trunk Bearers from where no one had ever<br />
returned yet. He was afraid because he knew that there was a<br />
canyon, a mysterious cave somewhere near the town where those<br />
who were thinking were hiding, those with unwanted stimulated<br />
parts of their brains, and where those fled to who had to fear to be<br />
thrown down into a concrete city, or those who had become<br />
pregnant despite all operations, had their child and wanted to raise<br />
it. ORO knew of the canyon and the secret cave. He had led<br />
Sunshine there before Little ONs birth. And it had not been long<br />
after this that ON had been captured in the net of the checks, that<br />
he was convicted to memory erasure and was thrown down into the<br />
city of the Trunk Bearers.<br />
His friends calamity overthrew the fear in OROs heart. Instead, it<br />
filled with bitter determination. In his eyes, ON had been miserably<br />
and irreversibly perished, but Sunshine and Little ON and all those<br />
who hid in the cave of Bald Mountain, in need of food and medics<br />
supply from time to time, weren't to perish. ORO visited the cave<br />
regularly. And together with him, good friends came here at night<br />
and brought packages and presents, only to vanish again. They<br />
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