The man who saved New York by Ray Cummings
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"The man who saved New York by Ray Cummings" is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. Blending wartime adventure with speculative fantasy, it follows a man whose roaming ego can possess other beings, culminating in an extraordinary intervention that thwarts a Nazi attack on New York. The narrator’s friend Porky discovers he can slip his consciousness into strangers and control them, a power he nervously demonstrates by making
an old woman direct traffic. Seeing a chance to help the war effort, the group schemes to have Porky possess a U-boat commander and sabotage enemy submarines. On a moonlit beach, as an air raid approaches, Porky instead slips into a colossal green sea giant that rises offshore and destroys several Nazi bombers, saving the city. Afterward, Porky and Lisbeth fall in love, and his strange ability vanishes, ending any hope of using it to end the war, even though it has already averted disaster for New York. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Cummings, Ray, 1887-1957 |
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| Illustrator | Luros, Milton, 1911-1999 |
| Title | The man who saved New York |
| Original Publication | Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc, 1943. |
| Series Title | Produced from the July 1943 issue of Science Fiction Stories. |
| Credits | Roger Frank |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Psychic ability -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 76899 |
| Release Date | Sep 19, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 4908 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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