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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"I don't know."<br />
"And what is this Central Control? Who is this Central Control?<br />
What kind of unknown force is that?", Peter called. "And where do I<br />
find this Central Control? I want to get to them!"<br />
And since no one answered, he asked again.<br />
"How can I get to this Central Control?"<br />
Again, dead silence was the only answer.<br />
He had spoken aloud the most important question. It was what<br />
they all here wanted to know about. Where this mysterious<br />
Something or this Somebody was who was directing their fate. And<br />
no matter how much doubt they had about the rightness of the<br />
conditions here, how much they discussed, no one had dared yet to<br />
tell aloud about the possibility to get to Central Control, to see them<br />
eye to eye...<br />
"I have to get back to my spaceship... and have to find someone<br />
who can help me with that. July is waiting for me. My home is<br />
Earth. I'm not staying here!", Peter called out again. "When I find<br />
Central Control, I'm willing to leave my instruments and equipment<br />
here, one might estimate my oxygen replicator and use it. I want to<br />
say everything I know, but someone shall help me getting back to<br />
July."<br />
Grave silence was the answer to Peters despaired emotional<br />
outburst.<br />
Then, ORO got up.<br />
"There is a chance... one single possibility. From time to time, I'm<br />
getting questionnaires regarding my work. I don't know who sent<br />
them or from where, but one thing is certain, they come from<br />
Central Control! Sometimes, I have to add a statement to my<br />
answers. Sometimes I'm told that they are satisfied with my work. I<br />
believe this isn't unknown to you all..."<br />
"That's right... we all are getting such questionnaires..."<br />
"On the next one, I will write that we are visited by a guest from<br />
a distant planet and that he is staying at my home."<br />
An oppressive deep silence filled the cave.<br />
Then, there were affected calls from all sides.<br />
"ORO, you can't do this! Writing only a single word on those<br />
sheets which doesn't belong there is a deadly sin..."<br />
"ORO, that's impossible..."<br />
"No, ORO, we have to think for something else!"<br />
"We'd rather take up Peter with us, he should stay here forever.<br />
He can live with us and could teach us..."<br />
"We plunge us all into misfortune by reporting his presence."<br />
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