Edmond Hamilton: Devolution
“Devolution” is a short story by Edmond Hamilton, published in December 1936 in Amazing Stories magazine. Deep in the Canadian north, a pilot flies two biologists in search of unusual creatures he claims to have observed from his plane: gelatinous, translucent, glowing masses that seemed to float above the ground. During the night, as the team rests in a makeshift camp, doubts and fatigue set in, without imagining that what they are trying to find could be much closer than they think.