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jwharris28
Posted 2015-03-14 2:47 PM (#9878 - in reply to #9877)
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gallyangel - 2015-03-14 1:27 PM
Guest - 2015-03-14 5:59 AM I've wondered if science fiction writers had a chance to revise their work in later editions to fix glaring errors. I don't like that idea at all though.
If I remember correctly there were, as you say, glaring errors of a scientific kind, like the earth spinning backwards or something so obviously wrong like that in the first edition of the Ringworld, that Niven had to make revisions for later editions. It was just to embarrassing to leave them. And, of course, the first edition of The Hobbit, is different than the current edition. As Tolkien was integrating the Hobbit into his material for LOTRs, the character of Gollum had to be revised considerably from the first edition. So there are times where it does happen. And Plenty of times when it simply doesn't. Depends on the work and the author, is my guess.
 

I think it was very common for writers to change content from their magazine versions of their stories/serials when they were reprinted as books. But still, I like to think of books as unchanging, reflecting the times in which they were written.

 


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