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''Typewriter in the Sky'' is a science fiction novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The protagonist Mike de Wolf finds himself inside the story of his friend's book. He must survive conflict on the high seas in the Caribbean during the 17th century, before eventually returning to his native New York. Each time a significant event occurs to the protagonist in the story he hears the sounds of a typewriter in the sky. At the story's conclusion, de Wolf wonders if he is still a character in someone else's story. The work was first published in a two-part serial format in 1940 in ''Unknown Fantasy Fiction''. It was twice published as a combined book with Hubbard's work ''Fear''. In 1995 Bridge Publications re-released the work along with an audio edition. ''Typewriter in the Sky'' was well received. ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' called it "swashbuckling fun", and John Clute and John Grant in ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' characterized the work as the best of Hubbard's stories from the Arabian-fantasy theme. Writers have compared plot points from the 1951 science fiction book ''What Mad Universe'' by Fredric Brown and the 2006 film ''Stranger than Fiction'' by Zach Helm to Hubbard's tale. ==Plot== The main character, Mike de Wolf, is a struggling pianist in New York. His friend, Horace Hackett, is an author and popular pulp fiction writer, who writes about Mike as the villain in his book,〔〔 a swashbuckling adventure story.〔 The story begins in Hackett's basement-level apartment in Greenwich Village. Mike enters the bathroom of Hackett's apartment, and hears the sound of someone typing on a typewriter.〔 After electrocuting himself, Mike loses consciousness.〔 He subsequently awakens to find himself on a beach in the year 1640,〔 as a character within his friend's novel. Mike learns he is regarded in this world as the villain, Spanish Admiral Miguel de Lobo, a "pirate potboiler". He knows that the villains in stories written by Hackett often do not come to a favorable end, and is therefore eager to safely leave the realm to which he was transported.〔 Mike recognizes the specific work into which he has been transported: "he had no doubt at this was 'Blood and Loot', by Horace, and that the whole panorama was activated only by Horace's mind. And what Horace said was so, was so. And what Horace said people said, they said." The story takes place on the high seas in the Caribbean during the 17th century with a conflict among colonists.〔 When a major event occurs, Mike hears the sound of a typewriter in the sky.〔〔〔 Mike's reality literally changes each time the author makes a change to the story. Hackett writes under pressure, as he is facing a deadline. He falls in love with a woman in the story, but grows frustrated after realizing that she is just another of Hackett's fictional creations.〔 At the end of the work, Mike returns to New York, but questions whether he is still a character in someone else's story.〔 He muses whether or not there exists a "typewriter in the sky", which is in effect creating the world. Mike looks up into the sky in search of this mystical device or its controller, "Abruptly Mike de Wolfe stopped. His jaw slackened a trifle and his hand went up to his mouth to cover it. His eyes were fixed upon the fleecy clouds which scurried across the moon. Up there – God? In a dirty bathrobe?"〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Typewriter in the Sky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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