Typewriter in the Sky

L. Ron Hubbard

Aug 1995 · Galaxy Press LLC

About this ebook

It’s not easy living in someone else’s world. But that’s the story of Mike de Wolf’s life. . . literally. He awakens to find himself a fictional villain in someone else’s book, landing in the West Indies three centuries ago, pursued by pirates and a wild woman on horseback. What’s a guy to do? The answer’s written in the sky—in this wildly original, wickedly amusing novel. "An adventure story written in the great style adventures should be written in." —Clive Cussler

Ratings and reviews

A damned PDF with DRM. Should have seen this coming. Not a reflowable epub. Hard to read on most devices, except a desktop monitor. Hubbard's "best work" showed his disdain for the industry. And, true to form, all his characters are mostly one-sided, shallow. Hubbard only wrote melodrama, as the plot runs the characters. And like his own life, only the main character was "real." If thisis his best, then forget his other fiction. Simply pulp fiction on the Lester Dent model. Nothing to see here, move along... You root for the hero, until he says God/god is just a figment, and you can control the story when "He" isn't looking. All sorts of errors in this piece that a decent editor would have caught. (Names and characters suddenly showing up without being established, events taking place without motivation, erudite vocabulary to throw the reader off. Typical disdain for authority of government and church unless they worship the ground the hero walks on - typical Hubbard. The point of the story was to make fun of the 30's and 40's pulp fiction industry and also to show off his vanity. He's now a mostly forgotten pulp fiction writer, a legend in his own mind. Only an active writer for 13 years out of 18 in the industry. Wood (author of "Plotto") wrote for 40 years. Go read Asimov or Heinlein for more prolific writers who actually survived the pulp fiction era with memorable classics, but without having to create a sci-fi/fantasy world hidden behind a religious charade. Horace Hackett was Hubbard, and it shows. May the great typewriter in the sky have mercy on his soul. Perhaps it would quit re-writing his epitaph and biography...

I have the hardcover but wanted the ebook version. But as another reviewer mentioned, it's a PDF and not an EPUB, which means you can't change the font size, making it a useless purchase for me. I applied for a refund but Google refused. They should at least list the available formats on the info page before we make our purchase.

Imagine waking up in the middle of the story of some novel you're reading and having to live the story! Well, that's what happens in this book! A very fun and very unique story. I highly recommend it!

About the author

L. Ron Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska on March 13, 1911. He attended George Washington University and Princeton University. He began his career as a writer for pulp magazines and later as a science fiction writer. His science fiction works include the Buckskin Brigades, Final Blackout, Fear, The Kingslayer, and Black Towers to Danger. His book, Dianetics, was published in 1950. He spent the next 30 years devoting himself to the development of Dianetics and Scientology. In 1954, he founded the Church of Scientology. In the 1980s, he published his final fiction works Battlefield Earth and the Mission Earth series, which won the Cosmos 2000 Award from French readers and the Nova Science Fiction Award from Italy's Perseo Libri. He died on January 24, 1986.