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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24 – ORO gets an answer<br />
It had well been some days since ORO had sent the message. On<br />
a questionnaire, he had to report about the usability of a new kind<br />
of surgical instrument. The questions referred to the precision of<br />
the instrument, its design and the quality of the metal alloy. ORO<br />
carefully answered every question, and then wrote in the field<br />
"Other important notes", which he always left blank, that an<br />
inhabitant of Earth who wanted to get back to his spaceship was in<br />
the city.<br />
He hesitated for a moment, then pushed the button on the<br />
dashboard, and the sheet was gone, somewhere into the unknown –<br />
now, nothing could be changed about the whole thing anymore.<br />
The report was sent, but no reply came back.<br />
ORO got new instructions, had to do calculations and tests, he<br />
also got new questionnaires, but nothing indicated that someone<br />
had gotten his message, read and taken notice of it.<br />
After two days of mulling over the matter, Peter decided to move<br />
into the City of the Rememberers because if ORO would get an<br />
answer it was likely that an instant pursuit for him, the comer,<br />
would start, and if he stayed in the cave, his hideout could reveal<br />
the others as well. If the life of the ones who hid in that cave from<br />
the unknown Someone even was a secret at all.<br />
The longer an answer kept them waiting, the uneasier Peter and<br />
his friends became. Peter felt more and more clearly that<br />
somewhere someone knew about him, that his arrival to this planet<br />
had been registered somewhere and that his path from the city of<br />
the Trunk Bearers had been traced, somewhere where the calls<br />
from the spaceship "Humanitas" had been received as well as his<br />
despaired, stubborn attemps to establish a radio communication on<br />
which he tried to search for July, and by tracking those radio<br />
signals, it was possible to determine where he had been at which<br />
given time. Well, he had reported officially now – if there was any<br />
kind of registration office here at all – and he had to move into the<br />
city.<br />
Sunshine and ON accepted those facts, too, and thought it to be<br />
right, although it was very hard for ON to part with Peter. And even<br />
Little ON and the other children didn't want to accept the departure<br />
of Peter.<br />
"Stay with us, man from Earth, stay here", they pleaded, "and<br />
teach us!"<br />
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