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What are your thoughts about authors revising their older works to make them more modern? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by Melenduwir@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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Probably the best example I can think of is Diane Duane reworking her Wizards series to make it modern-day, but there are others, including owners of a literary estate altering books left to them to make them compatible with current standards.

What do you think? Does it matter if it's the original author or an inheritor?

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[–] GingerIsTheBestSpice@alien.top 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are You There God? It's Me. Margaret was revised and thank the Lord because 80s me was soooo confused by the products she used - belts???

[–] OverlappingChatter@alien.top 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But the whole point is that 80s you learnd that we used to have to use belts. Maybe ask an older lady about a belt and have a good story and a laugh.

[–] iglidante@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I guess that depends on whether the book is an artifact of its time or a functional tool for the reader. I think it's both, so it gets messy.