This edition had all images removed.
Title: The thought-feeders
Original Publication: New York, NY: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1941.
Note: Reading ease score: 85.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Credits: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http: //www.pgdp.net
Summary: "The Thought-Feeders" by R. R. Winterbotham is a science fiction novella written in the early 1940s. The narrative follows two aviators, Dr. Kempster Duerkes and Captain Lewis Hawes, who encounter an extraordinary phenomenon during a high-altitude flight. The book explores themes of consciousness, evolution, and the existence of higher forms of life in the stratosphere that consume thoughts as sustenance. In the story, Dr. Duerkes and Captain Hawes find themselves unexpectedly trapped in a greenish cloud after their airplane experiences a mechanical failure. Once engulfed by the cloud, they lose their sensory perceptions and undergo a transformation that allows them to communicate with the cloud beings, known as the Green Clouds. These entities reveal that their existence relies on feeding off the thoughts of lower beings, like humans. As the two men adapt to this new realm, they grapple with the Green Clouds' peculiar lifestyle, which lacks tangible labor and relies solely on mental creation. Fascinated yet bewildered, Hawes and Duerkes ponder their role in this bizarre society, ultimately attempting to escape and return to Earth. The story culminates in a dramatic departure as they build a new airplane from their thoughts, leaving behind the unusual and thought-driven existence of the Green Clouds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Winterbotham, R. R. (Russell Robert), 1904-1971
Illustrator: Dolgov, Boris
EBook No.: 73145
Published: Mar 11, 2024
Downloads: 65
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
Subject: Telepathy -- Fiction
Subject: Airships -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: The thought-feeders
Original Publication: New York, NY: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1941.
Note: Reading ease score: 85.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Credits: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http: //www.pgdp.net
Summary: "The Thought-Feeders" by R. R. Winterbotham is a science fiction novella written in the early 1940s. The narrative follows two aviators, Dr. Kempster Duerkes and Captain Lewis Hawes, who encounter an extraordinary phenomenon during a high-altitude flight. The book explores themes of consciousness, evolution, and the existence of higher forms of life in the stratosphere that consume thoughts as sustenance. In the story, Dr. Duerkes and Captain Hawes find themselves unexpectedly trapped in a greenish cloud after their airplane experiences a mechanical failure. Once engulfed by the cloud, they lose their sensory perceptions and undergo a transformation that allows them to communicate with the cloud beings, known as the Green Clouds. These entities reveal that their existence relies on feeding off the thoughts of lower beings, like humans. As the two men adapt to this new realm, they grapple with the Green Clouds' peculiar lifestyle, which lacks tangible labor and relies solely on mental creation. Fascinated yet bewildered, Hawes and Duerkes ponder their role in this bizarre society, ultimately attempting to escape and return to Earth. The story culminates in a dramatic departure as they build a new airplane from their thoughts, leaving behind the unusual and thought-driven existence of the Green Clouds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Winterbotham, R. R. (Russell Robert), 1904-1971
Illustrator: Dolgov, Boris
EBook No.: 73145
Published: Mar 11, 2024
Downloads: 65
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Human-alien encounters -- Fiction
Subject: Telepathy -- Fiction
Subject: Airships -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.