So is Bachman something like Alvaro de Campos, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Álvaro_de_Campos) or like some other Imaginary (http://www.tupelopress.org/imaginary.shtml) writer, or is Bachman's style usually indistinguishable from King's? I see how a pseudonym (or allonym) could help a writer do something she couldn't easily do under her own name, not in terms of publishing so much as in terms of invention-- it might help even when everyone involved knows what orthonym corresponds to the allonym/ pseudonym.

I found the Darkon doc predictable-- I'm just not capable of that much suspension of disbelief, and so found it easy to get, but hard to stay, inside the heads of the roleplayers. I wonder if the rise of Second LIfe, World of Warcraft, and other invented worlds online will lead to a rise in LARPs (as more people realize they want to become someone else) or a decline (because you can now become someone else without having to suspend disbelief about costume-shop monsters and live combat with foam swords).