Project Gutenberg 2024-03-11 Public domain in the USA. 118 Winterbotham, R. R. (Russell Robert) 1904 1971 Winterbotham, Russell Robert Winterbotham, Russ Winterbotham, R.R. Dolgov, Boris Dolgov, Boris I. The thought-feeders $aNew York, NY :$bColumbia Publications, Inc., $c1941. Produced from Future combined with Science Fiction October 1941. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "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.) 20240225121500winterboth 1941 US Reading ease score: 85.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Human-alien encounters -- Fiction Telepathy -- Fiction Airships -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 50475 2025-07-29T05:09:40.201215 text/html 25762 2024-03-11T18:05:11 text/html 449301 2025-07-29T05:09:43.334276 application/epub+zip 448075 2025-07-29T05:09:41.410193 application/epub+zip 169402 2025-07-29T05:09:40.677199 application/epub+zip 952803 2025-07-29T05:09:44.786171 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 946023 2025-07-29T05:09:42.820199 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 42077 2025-07-29T05:09:40.038239 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 22243 2024-03-11T18:05:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16884 2025-07-29T05:09:44.918224 application/rdf+xml 28208 2025-07-29T05:09:40.991219 image/jpeg 4671 2025-07-29T05:09:40.832224 image/jpeg 1104445 2025-07-29T05:09:40.221209 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