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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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[–] zippy72@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Every time there was a new edition of a "Saint" book Leslie Charteris used to make changes to modernise it - change the cars, fashion, etc.

Acceptable but as a reader I'd rather he'd spent the time writing a new one instead.