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?
by Melenduwir
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If the author wants to do it, how can I talk trash? But if it’s someone else, get lost. People can be grown ups and understand that there were things like racial slurs and words like “fat” to describe people
I support an author wanting to explore a new version of their work.
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.
Yeah I don’t like non-authors changing anything. And even if it’s the author, I’d at least want it to be clearly labeled as a revised edition
I think if the author wants to do it, it’s fine, *provided they keep access to the original available*.
I think if you go to all the effort of writing, editing, publishing, and distributing a book, you should make sure it’s what you want the world to read. Rewriting your book after the fact is either lazy or pandering in my view.