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* ExecutiveMeddling: Inuniverse. 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.

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* ExecutiveMeddling: Inuniverse.InUniverse. 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.
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* DesignatedVillain: In-Universe; Miguel de Lobo comes across as this due to Mike lacking enthusiasm for the role.
* ExecutiveMeddling: 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.

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* DesignatedVillain: In-Universe; InUniverse; Miguel de Lobo comes across as this due to Mike lacking enthusiasm for the role.
* ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe.Inuniverse. 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.



* {{Tuckerization}}: In-universe, Hackett basing Miguel de Lobo on Mike de Wolf.

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* {{Tuckerization}}: In-universe, InUniverse, Hackett basing Miguel de Lobo on Mike de Wolf.
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* DesignatedVillain: Invoked; Miguel de Lobo comes across as this due to Mike lacking enthusiasm for the role.

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* DesignatedVillain: Invoked; In-Universe; Miguel de Lobo comes across as this due to Mike lacking enthusiasm for the role.
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* MinimalisticCoverArt: In stark contrast to the extremely flashy and attention-grabbing covers of the pulp era, the original publication had a very minimalistic design which the Publishers hoped would attract more serious readers. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/typewriterpart1_unkown.jpg]]
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''Typewriter in the Sky'' is a novel by Creator/LRonHubbard, originally published as a magazine serial in 1940.

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''Typewriter in the Sky'' is a novel by Creator/LRonHubbard, written in 1940 and originally published as a magazine two part serial in 1940.
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* DesignatedVillain: Invoked; Miguel de Lobo comes across as this due to Mike lacking enthusiasm for the role.



* DesignatedVillain: Invoked; Miguel de Lobo comes across as this due to Mike lacking enthusiasm for the role.
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** Which is actually ArtisticLicenseHistory for most Age of Sail pirate crews.
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* FourthWallShutInStory: A related problem where 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.
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* TheWomenAreSafeWithUs: Mike tries to enforce this trope on the pirates of Miguel de Lobo's band, but finds that they refuse to obey any orders on the subject. Hubbard gives a fair bit of attention to [[RapePillageAndBurn what would actually happen]] during a pirate attack, as well as how Mike's modern morality estranges him from his crewmen.
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* InferredHolocaust: At the end, we see what happens to the world of Hackett's novel when the story's over; left unstated, but not unimplied, is that Hackett's "real world" will shortly undergo the same fate.
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''Typewriter in the Sky'' is a novel by LRonHubbard, originally published as a magazine serial in 1940.

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''Typewriter in the Sky'' is a novel by LRonHubbard, Creator/LRonHubbard, originally published as a magazine serial in 1940.

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