The Cummings, Ray 1887-1957 creator Luros, Milton 1911-1999 text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) Release date is 2025-09-19 Roger Frank 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 PS Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc, 1943 https://archive.org/details/science-fiction-stories-v-03-n-05-1943-07 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76899 https://archive.org/details/science-fiction-stories-v-03-n-05-1943-07 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76899 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134800.0 76899