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1 year agoAuthors have updated their works e.g. Frankenstein rewrite in 1831, Dickens also updated at least A Tale of Two Cities possibly some others.
There was a thing in the 1980s or so, when Ted Turner bought up a bunch of classic black and white movies, and started colourizing them. People got really up in arms. George Lucas, and Woody Allen testified in front of some sort committee, and I believe a law was passed prohibiting the alteration of films without the consent of the original creators.
Personally, if it’s done by the author, or with their consent, I see no problem. But if not, then it should be left alone. With one exception: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58398068
I read the opening paragraph of The Way of Kings Prime, and that was enough for me to tap out.
A character sees a storm cresting the horizon, and then the very next sentence it’s mentioned that the storm is still distant. Yeah, I got that it was still distant when you told me that it was cresting the horizon.