02507cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000330011324500210014626400510016730000470021833600260026533700260029133800360031749000470035350000310040050800970043152013570052853400740188565300200195965300180197965300380199765300320203583000470206785600430211468669UtSlPG20260610134603.0mcr n260607r20221947utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aHamilton, Edmond,d1904-197710aProxy Planeteers 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2022  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from Startling Stories, July 1947  aRelease date is 2022-08-02  aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.  a"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.)  pOriginally published:cUnited States: Better Publications, Inc., 1947  aScience fiction  aShort stories  aHuman-alien encounters -- Fiction  aMercury (Planet) -- Fiction 0aProduced from Startling Stories, July 194740uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68669