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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– another door opened in front of him. And suddenly, he stood<br />
outside the airport – on a wonderful square.<br />
Peter cried out with elation.<br />
It was a very large square, larger than the one at St. Peter's<br />
Basilica in Rome. In its center was a fountain with a group of light,<br />
elated figures, with marble men, women, children and prancing<br />
horses which seemed to dance under the shimmering, foaming and<br />
floating water. Around the fountain, there were trees, bushes and<br />
flowers. In the distant, one could see the outlines of magnificient<br />
buildings, of palaces built of white and pink marble. And above the<br />
square, the sky shone blue, silky blue...<br />
With a sudden decision, Peter took off his breather and took a<br />
deep breath.<br />
He breathed in oxygen-rich, good smelling, real air.<br />
Air, like it was to be found in the nicest regions of Earth, in the<br />
sunlit snow landscapes of the Caucasus or the Alps, in the palm<br />
tree groves of Hawaii or the lavender fields of Tihany. He breathed<br />
in again and again and was quite intoxicated with pure joy. Oxygen!<br />
Wonderful invigorating element! In unrestricted wealth under a<br />
bright blue sky! Fountains and blooming trees, not far from him<br />
was a bush. He went to it and touched a leaf with his finger. It was<br />
a living, real plant with lush branches and glowing red blossoms.<br />
Was this possible? Was he still on the same planet? On the<br />
planet of the suffocating fogs, the concrete buildings, the miserables<br />
hiding in the cave?<br />
He had been there for maybe two minutes, blinking in the bright<br />
light, taking deep breaths and enjoying the oxygen which permeated<br />
his lungs and blood, when a snow white vehicle rolled next to him.<br />
It looked like a car on Earth, going on wheels, glowing brightly,<br />
moving without a sound. The door sprang open, and a friendly<br />
young man stepped out. He wore a slightly strange looking, overly<br />
tight-fitting suit (for earthly understanding at least) made of a very<br />
nice fabric. He, too, wore no breather. With great warmth, he<br />
extended his hand to Peter and welcomed him, smiling.<br />
Peter was going to answer, but had a second thought right in<br />
time. For the moment, it might be better to act as if he didn't<br />
understand <strong>Oxygénia</strong>s language. He shook his head and indicated<br />
with movements of his hand he wouldn't understand the words.<br />
He grabbed into his sidebag, took out his interplanetary<br />
translator, switched it on and looked back at the young man.<br />
His host repeated:<br />
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