Blaze (novel) Blaze (novel) Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in an attic. In fact (as mentioned in the afterword of "Different Seasons") it was written before "Carrie" and King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as "'Salem's Lot". They chose the latter to be his second novel and "Blaze" became a "trunk novel." King rewrote the manuscript, editing out much of what he perceived as over-sentimentality in the original text, and offered the
Humans as Gods feature: being "optimistic" about the future. Nevertheless, the first book has been rejected by four publishers before being printed (which was unusual for the Soviet fiction publishers). The first novel was published under the title "Humans as Gods" in 1966 by Lenizdat, in the storybook collection "The Hellenic Mystery" by different authors. The second novel appeared in a collection likewise: it was printed in 1968 by the same publisher. At that time the second novel has been bearing the name "Straitened Amid Stars", with "The Invasion of Perseus" being the name of its first part. Curiously, the collection as a