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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25 – The clouds are opening<br />
The Central Square was the starting point of numerous moving<br />
sidewalks. They brought the Rememberers from the residential<br />
district to the working places. In the well-ordered, nice town there<br />
were fifteen to twenty different kind of houses, larger and smaller<br />
ones, with different colors, between artifical trees and bushes. After<br />
every tenth or twentieth house a club, a restaurant and a store<br />
followed, then parks with artifical plants and residential houses<br />
again. The city was surprisingly big and except for the Central<br />
Square not very comprehensible.<br />
ORO accompanied Peter to the Central Square.<br />
Silent and concerned, they walked side by side.<br />
The decision was irrevocable. They couldn't know what the power<br />
to which mercy or disgrace they had subjected themselves now had<br />
planned for or against them.<br />
But there was no other possibility.<br />
Peter entered the moving sidewalk number Four.<br />
Would they ever see each other again?<br />
"Thank you for everything, ORO."<br />
"Good luck, Peter, to you and to all of us."<br />
Peter looked back. He was sad, but also strongly determined.<br />
"No. There has been no other solution. I don't fear it!"<br />
The moving sidewalk led through streets similiar to those Peter<br />
had seen until now in the City of the Rememberers for a while.<br />
Suddenly he found himself in front of a lock, a door opened up.<br />
Now, an inner corridor with pale green twilight followed. The moving<br />
sidewalkd sped up considerably, and the way was steadily climbing<br />
up. Then, it stopped abruptly. Peter had almost lost his balance. He<br />
stood in front of a second lock. This one opened, too, without him<br />
needing to do anything. Peter took some steps forwards, and the<br />
lock closed behind him.<br />
He felt like he would have gotten into thick fog, into seething<br />
haze.<br />
Strainedly, he tried to recognize something, but all he saw<br />
around him was grey, wafting mist. Completely alone, he stood on<br />
an unkown spot, saw nothing and heard nothing.<br />
There, something silvery shimmering ladder-like lowered itself in<br />
front of him. Peter went on the first step, it were stairs. Affected and<br />
doubtful, he ascended some steps.<br />
Even now, he couldn't see much.<br />
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