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

submitted 11 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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[–] _PrincessOats@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hate it. This happened to most Lois Duncan books, like adding random sentences referring to someone’s cell being at home or some such crap. Like, it was written in the 70s, I think readers can understand why the characters didn’t have freaking cell phones.

[–] Eruionmel@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Oh, weird. I thought OP was referring mostly to morality changes, like taking out ableist/racist language or something. Why the hell would you retcon the setting like that? Do they really think people don't understand that cell phones haven't always existed?