Bachman's style is very similar to King's, though it's complicated by the fact that most of the Bachman books predate or at best overlap with early King. But by book #4, King recounts that people were asking both him and "Bachman" about whether they were the same. I suspect the publishing/external benefits are not the same as the internal/imaginative benefits. For publishing, Nora Roberts does the same thing for conventional v. paranormal romances, and that clearly helps define her market. Michael Marshall Smith writes as Michael Marshall when he's doing mainstream thrillers instead of horror/fantastic sf.
Your take on suspension of disbelief fascinates me, because I would think you'd have to suspend a lot more disbelief to sit at a keyboard and pretend to be holding a sword, but perhaps it's like the uncanny valley, where the longer leaps are easier to take.
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Date: 2007-11-18 05:53 pm (UTC)Your take on suspension of disbelief fascinates me, because I would think you'd have to suspend a lot more disbelief to sit at a keyboard and pretend to be holding a sword, but perhaps it's like the uncanny valley, where the longer leaps are easier to take.