02329cam a22003973u 4500 76899 UtSlPG 20260610134800.0 m cr n 260607r20251943utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Cummings, Ray, 1887-1957 The man who saved New York Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Produced from the July 1943 issue of Science Fiction Stories. Release date is 2025-09-19 Roger Frank "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.) Originally published: Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc, 1943 Science fiction Short stories New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction Psychic ability -- Fiction Luros, Milton, 1911-1999 Produced from the July 1943 issue of Science Fiction Stories. https://archive.org/details/science-fiction-stories-v-03-n-05-1943-07 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76899 117624 117624