Pepper, it's almost (not quite) straight from the book "Dimension
of Miracles" by Robert Sheckley, a sci-fi author in the 1960s who
was very much underappreciated -- probably because his SF was
mostly witty social commentary rather than gee-whiz juvenile stuff.
In "Dimension," an average New Yorker gets taken by mistake to the
Galactic Center to receive a Prize for some interstellar
sweepstakes, and has to find the right earth at the right time out
of all the various possible earths. Looks like we ended up on the
wrong one, at least for now.
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