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There's nothing new under the sun.
Had a very similar conversation with a friend the other day who who said that the twist ending of H.G. Wells' original The War of the Worlds was a boring overdone trope because "Genghis Khan already did biological warfare."
Tbh, I kinda had the vibe that some of Bachman was about King experimenting with other people's stories. Like I always saw Rage as his take on The Catcher in the Rye.