Project Gutenberg 2022-08-02 Public domain in the USA. 93 Hamilton, Edmond 1904 1977 Sterling, Brett Proxy Planeteers $aUnited States :$bBetter Publications, Inc.,$c1947. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. "Proxy Planeteers" by Edmond Hamilton is a science fiction short story published in the mid-20th century. The tale unfolds in a futuristic setting involving the mining of uranium on Mercury using unmanned machines called Proxies, operated remotely from Earth. The protagonist, Doug Norris, confronts the mysterious failures of these Proxies and speculates on the presence of an unknown radioactive lifeform that may be sabotaging their operations. The plot centers on Doug Norris and Martin Kincaid, who are tasked with the Proxy Project on Mercury, crucial for providing uranium to Earth’s power supply. As several Proxies mysteriously fail, Norris theorizes that living gaseous entities, referred to as Raddies, are attacking them. After a series of misadventures, which include a drunken decision to attempt to revolutionize atomic energy by using bismuth instead of uranium, they realize that the Raddies possess a form of intelligence. It is ultimately revealed that these beings have imparted knowledge to the humans through a psychic link while operating their machines, leading to a profound revelation about the interconnectedness of intelligence across different life forms. The story combines thrilling adventure with thought-provoking ideas about consciousness and the boundaries of science. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220514121833hamilton 1947 US Reading ease score: 76.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Human-alien encounters -- Fiction Mercury (Planet) -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 62073 2025-06-27T07:50:10.787973 text/html 38410 2024-10-18T23:43:24 text/html 379114 2025-06-27T07:50:13.704011 application/epub+zip 377930 2025-06-27T07:50:11.925003 application/epub+zip 211598 2025-06-27T07:50:11.218993 application/epub+zip 1129362 2025-06-27T07:50:15.029930 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1121885 2025-06-27T07:50:13.252018 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 955552 2022-09-30T21:44:04.043206 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 55179 2025-06-27T07:50:10.662974 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 35329 2024-10-18T23:43:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17479 2025-06-27T07:50:15.152953 application/rdf+xml 32789 2025-06-27T07:50:11.534983 image/jpeg 5424 2025-06-27T07:50:11.375952 image/jpeg 1434984 2025-06-27T07:50:10.813009 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia