 Ballard, to be published in 1971, under his tie-in pseudonym "Brian Fox" (a by-line he had employed often when working for Award).But when the TV series was canceled before the book could be made ready for distribution, the book was canceled in turn.Ballard, apparently unwilling to let the novel go unpublished, retitled it, slapped on another of his pseudonyms, and, without so much as changing the names of its heroes, sold the book "again" to unsuspecting publisher Ballantine Books—who released it in December, 1972 under the title "Hell Hole" as by "John Hunter."