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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It was a spacious, pleasant, expedient flat with comfortable<br />
furniture. The sleeping rooms with pale blue, gold patterned<br />
wallpapers were in the first story, as well as the bathroom where<br />
one tap delivered water with added soap and the other one clear,<br />
lukewarm water. There was also a study with books on the shelves<br />
– exclusively about OROs profession. At the ground floor, next to<br />
the large room at the entrance, was a small TV room and at the<br />
other side a gambling hall with card tables and roulette, with bar<br />
shelves and closets, all filled with plenty of drinks. There was no<br />
kitchen in the house and no food, only some sweets at best. If they<br />
got hungry, they had to go to a club or a restaurant.<br />
On the street, the air was very poor of oxygen. Here, a mask and<br />
additional oxygen was needed. Oxygen was filled into the bins only<br />
when presented a valid NFC chip. Luckily, Peter could produce so<br />
much oxygen it would have lasted until the end of his and OROs<br />
life.<br />
At the beginning, Peter was hesitant to enter the dining hall.<br />
ORO and the others organized food for the cave inhabitants for a<br />
long time by first eating on their own on their NFC chip, then going<br />
to another dining hall and simply taking the ordered food from the<br />
table with them. ORO suggested to Peter he should wait at home,<br />
he would bring the food. But then, Peter changed his mind. He sat<br />
at a table in the dining hall and presented OROs chip to the<br />
machine. The next moment, the ordered meal was on the table. Now<br />
ORO sat down on the chair just opposite, and the machine<br />
delivered his meal, too, on the same NFC chip without a complaint.<br />
If they had wanted to, they could've had lunch ten times...<br />
After the first week had passed by without ORO getting an<br />
answer, Peter already thought that the message had passed<br />
unnoticed. Maybe it was archived into some bottomless index box,<br />
between designs, drafts and calculations, so it was gone and no one<br />
would ever answer to it. At the first moment, the thought let him<br />
despair, on second thought, maybe it would have been the best if he<br />
didn't draw attention and if he tried to get away from here some<br />
other way... But he felt as if he was in a mouse trap and got so<br />
hopeless sometimes that he considered asking ORO for the drug<br />
Deep Sleep, drinking himself into intoxication, just to not to know<br />
about anything at all and to forget his hopeless and pointless<br />
situation.<br />
He was living for the third week already in OROs home.<br />
ORO, too, was anxious. In the morning, he went to the clinic, in<br />
the afternoon he sat with Peter in front of the boring TV and stared<br />
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