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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In the fog, the outlines of a plane shimmered. Its door opened<br />
and closed behind him.<br />
Peter MacGulliver found himself in the quite comfortable<br />
passenger cabin of a pretty small plane. Aside from him, there was<br />
no human in here. Not even a pilot.<br />
After he had taken a seat at the window behind the wing, the<br />
aircraft started immediately and almost vertical.<br />
The plane flew for a very long time, several hours, through the<br />
fog. Gradually, the clouds became lighter, then the aircraft broke<br />
through into the light.<br />
Below the plane, the clouds billowed endlessly. But those clouds<br />
weren't white as the ones the inhabitants of Earth are seeing under<br />
them in aircrafts, but rather dirty, yellow and grey. But above him,<br />
the bright blue sky blinded him. Peter had to close his eyes since<br />
they had become so unused to the bright light.<br />
Obviously, everything around him was only illusion. Such a blue!<br />
It was as if liquid oxygen was glowing, as if the sun in the sky would<br />
shine a hundred times brighter than the one on Earth.<br />
A small table rolled in front of him. On it was a glass with<br />
something to drink and a plate with fruit paste. The refreshment<br />
was so tempting in color, shape and scent that Peter grabbed for it<br />
hastily and devoured it.<br />
Maybe he was wrong after all? Maybe he shouldn't believe<br />
everything he had seen and heard down there? Maybe he hadn't<br />
gotten into the hands of some evil, destroying power after all? Here,<br />
everything was sheer comfort and attentive care. Or where they just<br />
smart and clever? Maybe they just wanted to subdue his fear and<br />
suspicions with the good taste, the scent and the glow? Maybe this<br />
all was some kind of a test? Maybe friendly and unfriendly<br />
surprises would supersede each other? It was possible they showed<br />
with this that they wanted something from him. If they could be<br />
graceful and frightening at the same time? Who could know?<br />
'Careful! Careful!', Peter thought.<br />
But the pleasant experiences continued.<br />
He wasn't even fully done with his meal when the plane started<br />
to descend.<br />
It landed on a short runway. The aircraft stopped, the door<br />
opened itself, and the stairs came out.<br />
Peter left the plane. Below his feet, a moving sidewalk started. An<br />
automatic glass door opened, and Peter found himself in some sort<br />
of hall which was decorated with apple green tiling. Here, too, he<br />
met no one, and the sidewalk continued to transport him further on<br />
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