Typewriter in the Sky
Sawyer classed the story within the science fiction subgenre recursive science fiction , and writer Gary Westfahl wrote that Hubbard may have been influenced by the 1921 Luigi Pirandello play within the recursive fantasy subgenre , "Six Characters in Search of an Author" . 
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