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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    1 year ago

    Sometimes it seems to pass unnoticed. Many years ago, I was discussing details of Asimov’s “Foundation” online with another reader, and we found that I kept quoting passages he could not verify. In the end we realised that some time in the early 1980s, “Second Foundation” was stealthily edited, modifying a couple of data that were inconsistent with the two previous volumes and removing or altering a few phrases. While I had the original edition, he had the revised one and therefore was unable to find my quotes!