Fear/Typewriter in the Sky (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: L. Ron Hubbard
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—inner space
- Time of Work: The 1930s, with flashbacks, and primarily 1640, with flashbacks and flashforwards
- Setting: A college town, and New York City and the Caribbean
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Caribbean, Authors or writers, New York City, Writing, 1930’s, Seventeenth century, Devils or demons
- Locales: Caribbean, New York, NY
The Plot
Fear concerns the efforts of Professor James Lowry, an ethnologist at a small college, to discover what happened during four hours for which he cannot account. After returning from one of his many field trips from the Yucatán with a recurring case of malaria, Lowry learns that he is to be fired. The cause of his dismissal is a newspaper article in which he discounted the existence of devils and demons, and thereby Christianity, calling them fabrications of witch doctors who wanted both to instill fear in their followers and to control them. Shortly after his...
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