The Monkees (TV series) project by his agent. Englishman Davy Jones was a former jockey who had achieved some initial success on the musical stage, appearing with the cast of "Oliver!" on "The Ed Sullivan Show" the night of the Beatles' live American debut. He was appearing in Columbia Pictures productions and recording for the Colpix record label and had been identified in advance as a potential star for the series. Texan Michael Nesmith's mother Bette Nesmith Graham had invented a correction fluid and founded the company that became Liquid Paper. He had served a brief stint in the U.S. Air Force and had
Typewriter in the Sky his own imagination, to populate them, and to destroy them. The clearest example of this divine power of the author appears in "Typewriter in the Sky" (1940)". Urban notes that the “theme of superior men or supermen” in works like Typewriter in the Sky is continued in Dianetics and Scientology. Writing in the October 1951 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction", Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas wrote favorably of "Typewriter in the Sky", and characterized it as "an entertaining adventure-farce badly in need of editing". Reviewing the same edition, Groff Conklin termed it "a silly idea