Ray Cummings 26 min read

The narrator swears the Green Giant who waded in the ocean off Sandy Hook must stay a mystery, because being billed as a first-class candidate for the nut-house never did anyone any good.

Ray Cummings's 1943 story is a wry psi-powers and social-SF tale. Clever, fun golden-age SF. Read it for a genial pulp yarn where an ordinary man and his friends unleash, and must deal with, a towering menace off the coast of New York, told with a wink, in the breezy, imaginative style of a golden-age pioneer.

In its time

Published in 1943, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

26 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Milton Luros