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''Typewriter in the Sky'' is a novel by [[L. Ron Hubbard]], originally published as a magazine serial in 1940.

''[[Typewriter in the Sky]]'' is a novel by [[L. Ron Hubbard]], originally published as a magazine serial in 1940.

After pulp novel writer Horace Hackett bases the villain of his new swashbuckling novel on his friend Mike de Wolf, Mike finds himself sucked into the novel and forced to act out the role. He struggles to survive in a strange, arbitrary and badly-written new world.

* [[Creator Cameo]]: In the sequence where Hackett goes to show his editor the manuscript in progress, he briefly meets one of his fellow writers, Rene Lafayette -- that being one of the pseudonyms of Lafayette Ron Hubbard.

* [[Executive Meddling]]: In-universe. Partway through, Hackett's editor starts complaining that the villainous Miguel de Lobo is not villainous enough (not to mention being more well-rounded and charismatic than the novel's intended hero), and imposes a set of rewrites.

* [[Designated Villain]]: Invoked; Miguel de Lobo comes across as this due to Mike lacking enthusiasm for the role.

* [[Fourth Wall Shut-in Story]]: Variation: an author bases a character in his new novel on a friend, and the friend gets sucked into the novel and forced to play the role of the character.

* [[Genre Deconstruction]]

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Miguel de Lobo with the captured heroine of the novel. Mike is not happy about it.