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

If it's making adjustments here and there to fix errors and/or improve continuity I guess I'm okay with it. Beyond that it's a slippery slope. For example I'm fine with Stephen King restoring some material cut from his manuscript for The Stand, but the half-assed update to 1990 wasn't needed.

As for the author or anyone else altering books to appease modern/liberal/conservative/religious/Martian sensibilities, I'm against it.