Stephen King at King's alma mater, the University of Maine in Orono, for many years and had been covered by numerous King experts. King rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for its publication. King has used other pseudonyms. The short story "The Fifth Quarter" was published under the pseudonym John Swithen (the name of a character in the novel "Carrie"), that was published in "Cavalier" in April 1972. The story was reprinted in King's collection "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" in 1993 under his own name. In the introduction to the Bachman novel "Blaze", King claims, with tongue-in-cheek, that "Bachman" was the person using 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