![]() ![]() In the late 1970s, King’s publisher Signet was trying to hold the famously prolific author to one book a year. The Bachman identity developed from a couple of different directions. Stephen King publisher w:New American Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ![]() The novel was The Running Man, and in it, Richard Bachman - or rather, Stephen King - proved that his talent went beyond scares to prognostication. Forty years ago this month, one of the most famous writers in American history released an unassuming dystopian tale under his infamous pseudonym. Whether its Jules Verne figuring out Moon landing math in the 1800s or William Gibson coining the term “cyberspace” before a functional world wide web existed, some writers have divined what was yet to come with eerie accuracy. ![]() It’s not terribly uncommon that they occasionally predict the future. Sometimes they tweak the past or make changes to the present. Writers of fiction constantly create imaginary versions of the world. ![]()
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